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Karpun N.N., Omarova Z.M., Shoshina E.I. Belous O.G. Resistance of collection cultivars of persimmon (Diospyros L.) to damage by the invasive scale Ceroplastes ceriferus (Fabricius, 1798) in the Russian subtropics. Sel'skokhozyaistvennaya Biologiya [Agricultural Biology], 2025, Vol. 60, № 5, p. 923-936.
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doi: 10.15389/agrobiology.2025.5.923eng

UDC: 632.75:634.451

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Funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of Russia (grant № 075-15-2025-577)

 

RESISTANCE OF COLLECTION CULTIVARS OF PERSIMMON (Diospyros L.) TO DAMAGE BY THE INVASIVE SCALE Ceroplastes ceriferus (Fabricius, 1798) IN THE RUSSIAN SUBTROPICS

N.N. Karpun✉, Z.M. Omarova, E.I. Shoshina, O.G. Belous

Federal Research Centre the Subtropical Scientific Centre RAS, 2/28, ul. Yana Fabritsiusa, Sochi, 354002 Russia, e-mail nkolem@mail.ru (✉ corresponding author),uly_om@mail.ru, haska6767@mail.ru,oksana191962@mail.ru

ORCID:
Karpun N.N. orcid.org/0000-0002-7696-3618
Shoshina E.I. orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-1546
Omarova Z.M. orcid.org/0000-0001-9397-1778
Belous O.G. orcid.org/0000-0001-5613-7215

Final revision received May 24, 2025
Accepted August 03, 2025

Collections of living plants have enormous potential and serve as unique platforms for studying the mechanisms of plant adaptivity to various environmental factors and for selection of resistant forms for further breeding (G.R. Mursalimova et al., 2018; F.I. Privalov et al., 2022). The genetic collections of the Federal Research Centre the Subtropical Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (hereinafter FRC SSC RAS) include 2.700 cultivars of fruit, subtropical and floral-ornamental plants, supported live (A.V. Ryndin et al., 2021). The persimmon collection of the FRC SSC RAS is represented by 22 cultivars of oriental persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) foreign and domestic breeding, as well as two species forms – D. virginiana L. and D. lotus L. (M.D. Omarov et al., 2024; M.D. Omarov, R.V. Kulyan, 2015; Collections…, 2019). In 2015, the Indian wax scale Ceroplastes ceriferus (Fabricius) was identified on the Black Sea coast of Russia, which joined the persimmon pest complex (N.N. Karpun et al., 2017; L.Ya. Ayba et al., 2023). The research was conducted in 2018-2025 in Sochi. The study included 16 cultivars of oriental persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.), Caucasian persimmon (D. lotus L.) and two cultivars of Virginia persimmon (D. virginiana L.). For the first time, C. ceriferus was identified in September 2019 on the Diospyros kaki Jiro. The probable cause of the phytophagus in the garden is accidental skidding. In 2024-2025, C. ceriferus colonies were already populated by branches of 9 cultivars of oriental persimmon, of which the highest population density was noted in the cvs Jiro, Hachia and Hiakume. The cvs Geily, Kuro-Kuma, XX Century, Cora Goverla, Roman Kosh, Nikitskaya bordovaja and Gora Rogers remained uninhabited, as well as Caucasian persimmon, Virginsky persimmon and its Meader variety. The biological features of the C. ceriferus population on persimmons have been established. In 2024, C. ceriferus imagos were found to be parasitized. The percentage of parasitism (estimated by the departure of parasites in the spring of 2025) was 6.7 %. The relationship between the genotype of oriental persimmon cultivars and the Indian wax scale population density has not been clearly established. A direct correlation was found between the content of tannins (r = 0.71, p ≤ 0.05) and gallic acid (r = 0.95, p ≤ 0.05) in the shoots of oriental persimmon cultivars and the C. ceriferus population density on cultivars. The level of these substances can be considered one of the markers in identifying the trophic preferences of Indian wax scale.

Keywords: genetic collection, variety study, phytophag, Hemiptera, Coccidae, Indian wax scale, invasion, harmfulness, Black Sea Coast of Russia.

 

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