Botryosphaeriaceae as potential pathogens of Prunus species in South Africa, with descriptions of Diplodia africana and Lasiodiplodia plurivora sp. nov.

Mycologia

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 664-680

  Damm, Ulrike ^a   Crous, Pedro W ^b   Fourie, Paul H ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Botryosphaeria; Dothidotthia; Dothiorella; Fusicoccum; ITS; Neofusicoccum; Pathogenicity; Sphaeropsis; Systematics; Translation elongation factor EF1

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 5.8S;

ANGIOSPERM; FUNGUS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRUNUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRUNUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ASCOMYCOTA; BOTRYOSPHAERIA; BOTRYOSPHAERIACEAE; DIPLODIA; DIPLODIA PINEA; DOTHIORELLA; FUSICOCCUM; LASIODIPLODIA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS ARMENIACA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; PRUNUS PERSICA; PRUNUS PERSICA NUCIPERSICA; PRUNUS SALICINA; SERIATA; SPHAEROPSIS;

EID: 38149090287     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.99.5.664     Document Type: Article

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