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SUBMITTER: Lourenco CCG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5673507 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lourenço Carla Cristina Gomes CCG Alves Janaina Lana JL Guatimosim Eduardo E Colman Adans A Barreto Robert Weingart RW
Mycobiology 20170930 3
A severe leaf spot, turning to foliage blight, was observed on leaves of <i>Maranta leuconeura</i> growing in a garden in Brazil (state of Rio de Janeiro) in 2015. A dematiaceous hyphomycete bearing a morphology typical of a helminthosporoid fungi was regularly found in association with diseased tissues. The fungus was isolated and pathogenicity was demonstrated through the completion of Koch's postulates. A morphology and molecular analysis led to the conclusion that the fungus belonged to the ...[more]