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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Resolving the phylogenetic and taxonomic status of dark-spored teleomorph genera in the Botryosphaeriaceae
Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi, Volume 21, Year 2008
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Species in the Botryosphaeriaceae are common plant pathogens and saprobes found on a variety of mainly woody hosts. Teleomorphs typically have hyaline, aseptate ascospores. However, some have been reported with brown ascospores and their taxonomic status is uncertain. A multi-gene approach (SSU, ITS, LSU, EF1-α and β-tubulin) was used to resolve the correct phylogenetic position of the dark-spored 'Botryosphaeria' teleomorphs and related asexual species. Neodeightonia and Phaeobotryon are reinstated for species with brown ascospores that are either 1-septate (Neodeightonia) or 2-septate (Phaeobotryon). Phaeobotryosphaeria is reinstated for species with brown, aseptate ascospores that bear an apiculus at either end. The status of Sphaeropsis is clarified and shown to be the anamorph of Phaeobotryosphaeria. Two new genera, namely Barriopsis for species having brown, aseptate ascospores without apiculi and Spencermartinsia for species having brown, 1-septate ascospores with an apiculus at either end are introduced. Species of Dothiorella have brown, 1-septate ascospores and differ from Spencermartinsia in the absence of apiculi. These six genera can also be distinguished from one another based on morphological characters of their anamorphs. Although previously placed in the Botryosphaeriaceae, Dothidotthia, was shown to belong in the Pleosporales, and the new family Dothidotthiaceae is introduced to accommodate it. © 2008 Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures.
Authors & Co-Authors
Phillips, Alan J.L.
Portugal, Caparica
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Alves, Artur
Portugal, Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro
Pennycook, Shaun R.
New Zealand, Auckland
Landcare Research, Auckland
Johnston, Peter R.
New Zealand, Auckland
Landcare Research, Auckland
Akulov, Olexander Yu
Ukraine, Kharkiv
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Crous, Pedro Willem
Netherlands, Utrecht
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute - Knaw
Statistics
Citations: 275
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.3767/003158508X340742
ISSN:
00315850
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics