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Jing Luo1, Emily Walsh1, Ning Zhang2
1Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, 201 Foran Hall, 59 Dudley Road, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, and Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, 76 Lipman Drive, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901.
Abstract:
We investigated the phylogenetic relationships among Magnaporthales fungi with harpophora-like asexual states based on DNA sequences of ITS, MCM7, RPB1 and TEF1 genes. The results indicated that these species are polyphyletic. Based on the four-gene phylogeny, the type species of Harpophora, H. radicicola, belongs to Gaeumannomyces and thus Harpophora is treated as a synonym of Gaeumannomyces. In addition, a monotypic new genus, Falciphora, is established based on F. oryzae, previous referred as Harpophora oryzae.
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