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SUBMITTER: Xavier KV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7241677 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xavier K V KV Kc A N AN Crous P W PW Groenewald J Z JZ Vallad G E GE
Fungal systematics and evolution 20190510
During a survey of diseases affecting pomegranate in the southeastern USA we identified a unique species of <i>Diaporthales</i> causing leaf spotting and fruit rot. Objectives of this study were to provide a morphological description of the putative new species, use DNA sequence data of three gene loci (LSU, ITS and <i>rpb2</i>) to accurately place the fungus within the <i>Diaporthales</i>, and to prove Koch's postulates. Morphological and phylogenetic comparisons confirmed the fungus to represe ...[more]