Nigrospora Species Associated with Various Hosts from Shandong Peninsula, China
Yuanyuan Hao1, Janith V S Aluthmuhandiram2,3, K W Thilini Chethana2,3
1Administration Center of the Yellow River Delta Sustainable Development Institute of Shandong Province, Dongying, PR China.
Abstract:
Nigrospora is a monophyletic genus belonging to Apiosporaceae. Species in this genus are phytopathogenic, endophytic, and saprobic on different hosts. In this study, leaf specimens with disease symptoms were collected from host plants from the Shandong Peninsula, China. The fungal taxa associated with these leaf spots were studied using morphology and phylogeny based on ITS, TEF1, and TUB2 gene regions. In this article, we report on the genus Nigrospora with N. gorlenkoana, N. oryzae, N. osmanthi, N. rubi, and N. sphaerica identified with 13 novel host associations including crops with economic importance such as bamboo and Chinese rose.
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