Postharvest decay of mandarin fruit in Serbia caused by Penicillium expansum

Mandarin fruits are one of the most popular among Citrus genus. They consumed because their nutritional and health benefits, as well pleasant taste smell. This paper describes identification characterization Penicillium expansum, isolated from molded mandarin fruits. The obtained isolates were cultivated on five media [Czapek Yeast Autolysate agar (CYA), MEA (Malt extract agar), Creatine sucrose (CREA), (YES), Oatmeal (OA)] at different incubation temperatures (5, 15, 25, 30, 37 ?C). Isolates sequenced for two molecular loci: internal transcribed spacer beta-tubulin. Based results morphological, physiological, molecular, phylogenetic analyses, recovered identified P. expansum. species was confirmed pathogenic to in a pathogenicity test. To best our knowledge, this is first report expansum postharvest pathogen fruit Serbia.