Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 3

Abstract

This paper represents the third contribution in the Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi (GOPHY) series. The series provides morphological descriptions, information about the pathology, distribution, hosts and disease symptoms for the treated genera, as well as primary and secondary DNA barcodes for the currently accepted species included in these. This third paper in the GOPHY series treats 21 genera of phytopathogenic fungi and their relatives including: Allophoma, Alternaria, Brunneosphaerella, Elsinoe, Exserohilum, Neosetophoma, Neostagonospora, Nothophoma, Parastagonospora, Phaeosphaeriopsis, Pleiocarpon, Pyrenophora, Ramichloridium, Seifertia, Seiridium, Septoriella, Setophoma, Stagonosporopsis, Stemphylium, Tubakia and Zasmidium. This study includes three new genera, 42 new species, 23 new combinations, four new names, and three typifications of older names.

<p><strong><em>Alternaria telliensis sp. nov</em>., a new species isolated from <em>Solanaceae</em> in Algeria</strong></p>

“…Many new Alternaria species have been reported in recent years based on DNA sequences analyses, which has dramatically increased the number of accepted species (Marin-Felix et al 2019) with section Porri comprising more than 60 species . Only two species, A. japonica and A. nepalensis, have been included into section Japonicae.…”

“…On the other hand, molecular studies revealed multiple non-monophyletic lineage within Alternaria species clades and complex that did not always correlate with the described species-groups (Lawrence et al 2012, Woudenberg et al 2013. In recent studies, both morphological and molecular analyses were used in a complementary manner for classification of Alternaria genus which has been divided into 28 sections comprising about 280 accepted species (Woudenberg et al 2013, Lawrence et al 2016, Al Ghafri et al 2019, Marin-Felix et al 2019. Since this re-definition of the genus, the list of Alternaria species has been continuously growing after re-discriptions and new discovery (Deng et al 2018, Marin-Felix et al 2019, Poursafar et al 2019, Iturrieta-Gonzalez et al 2020, Nishikawa and Nakashima 2020.…”

“…In recent studies, both morphological and molecular analyses were used in a complementary manner for classification of Alternaria genus which has been divided into 28 sections comprising about 280 accepted species (Woudenberg et al 2013, Lawrence et al 2016, Al Ghafri et al 2019, Marin-Felix et al 2019. Since this re-definition of the genus, the list of Alternaria species has been continuously growing after re-discriptions and new discovery (Deng et al 2018, Marin-Felix et al 2019, Poursafar et al 2019, Iturrieta-Gonzalez et al 2020, Nishikawa and Nakashima 2020. For example, A. japonica was previously linked to the A. brassicicola species-90 • Phytotaxa 440 (2) © 2020 Magnolia Press group (Pryor & Gilbertson 2000, Pryor & Bigelow 2003, Lawrence et al 2013, but this association was questioned by Hong et al (2005) and A. japonica was later clustered in section Japonicae (Woudenberg et al 2013).…”

Multi-locus phylogeny of the genus Curvularia and description of ten new species

“…In this context, several studies based on the internal transcribed spacer regions and intervening 5.8S nrRNA gene (ITS), large subunit of the rDNA (LSU) and partial fragments of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and the translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1) genes have been performed, resulting in several species being transferred from one genus to another (Manamgoda et al 2012(Manamgoda et al , 2014Tan et al 2014). The Drechslera asexual morph of Pyrenophora, as well as species of Exserohilum and Johnalcornia, is also similar to Bipolaris and Curvularia (Tan et al 2014;Hernández-Restrepo et al 2018;Marin-Felix et al 2019). Some Exserohilum species can be easily distinguished from the other three genera by the production of conidia with distinctly protruding hila, but some species of Curvularia produce similar structures, leading to wrong identifications (Hernández-Restrepo et al 2018).…”

First report of Diaporthe foeniculina causing fruit rot of lemon in Turkey

“…Diaporthe spp. are pathogens, endophytes or saprobes on ornamentals, forest trees and economically important crops, causing different symptoms such as dieback, canker, leaf-spot, blight, fruit rot or wilt (Marin-Felix et al 2019). During November 2018, a post harvest fruit rot was observed on lemon fruit (Citrus limon) in Mersin Province, south Turkey, with an incidence of 10%.…”