The fungicide resistance of anthracnose in Camellia oleifera nurseries was investigated in Liuyang,Changning,and other regions in Hunan Province.The Colletotrichum gloeosporioides strains from the former two regions were highly resistant to carbendazim.After subcultured for 10 generations on fungicide-free medium,the resistant strains grew well on the medium containing carbendazim 450 μg/mL and suggesting that its resistance was stable.The β-tubulin genes from the resistant and susceptible strains were cloned and sequenced.The coding region was 1 344 bp nucleotides and predicted to encode a protein with 447 amino acids.Comparison of the β-tubulin amino acid sequences between resistant and susceptible strains of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides revealed that a mutation leading to an amino acid substitution at the position 198 from glutamic acid in the susceptible strain to alanine in the resistant strain.Finally,the main morphological characteristics of C.gloeosporioides were descripted,but it could not be used to determine the resistance to carbendazim.
