Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia

Mycologia

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 851-866

  Pavlic, Draginja ^a   Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Barber, Paul ^b   Slippers, Bernard ^a   Hardy, Giles E St J ^b   Burgess, Treena I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adansonia gibbosa; Biodiversity; Botryosphaeria; Dothiorella; Fusicoccum; Lasiodiplodia; Neoscytalidium; Pseudofusicoccum; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGUS; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ADANSONIA; ADANSONIA DIGITATA; ADANSONIA GIBBOSA; BOTRYOSPHAERIA; BOTRYOSPHAERIACEAE; DOTHIORELLA; FUSICOCCUM; LASIODIPLODIA;

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ADANSONIA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AUSTRALIA; BARK; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; TREE;

ADANSONIA; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; PLANT BARK; PLANT DISEASES; TREES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 60849139162     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-020     Document Type: Article

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