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A new species of Devriesia causing sooty blotch and flyspeck on Rubber Trees in China

Mycological Progress, ISSN: 1617-416X, Vol: 12, Issue: 4, Page: 733-738
2013
  • 14
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 22
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 25
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    14
    • Citation Indexes
      14
  • Captures
    22
  • Social Media
    25
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      25
      • Facebook
        25

Article Description

Sooty blotch and flyspeck is a fungal disease complex that colonizes a wide range of plants. In a survey of host plants for sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi, we obtained an isolate associated with discrete flyspeck symptom on stems of the Rubber Trees, Ficus elastica, from Haikou, Hainan, China. A pure culture was obtained, and the nuclear ITS region of rDNA was amplified by PCR. Molecular phylogeny inferred from ITS sequence data suggested that it was close to Devriesia strelitziae, reported from South Africa. Morphologically, it was characterized by longer conidia, more conidial septa, and having chlamydospores. Therefore, we describe our isolate as a novel species of Devriesia. © 2013 German Mycological Society and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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