The invention discloses application of a PmchoC
gene in prevention and treatment of
kiwi fruit soft rot, compared with a
wild type, after the PmchoC
gene of pestalotiopsis microspora is knocked out, the integrity of a
cell wall is obviously reduced, the sporulation quantity and the
germination rate are obviously reduced, and the
diameter of a scab is obviously reduced after the pestalotiopsis microspora is inoculated to
kiwi fruits; the
gene is proved to be capable of directly influencing the
pathogenicity of pestalotiopsis microspora; by spraying the dsRNA of the PmchoC gene, the
diameter of the scab of the
kiwi fruit is reduced by 55.26%, the
diameter of the scab of the leaf is reduced by 67.88%, and the PmchoC-dsRNA relieves the
disease symptom of the soft rot of the
kiwi fruit by inhibiting the expression of the PmchoC gene in pestalotiopsis microspora. According to the method, a spraying-induced
gene silencing technology is applied to prevention and treatment of the soft rot of the
kiwi fruit for the first time, and the problems that traditional
disease-resistant breeding is long in period, resistance is prone to loss, and the
disease outbreak risk is large are solved.