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Studies on the taxonomy and identification of plant pathogenic fungi, based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses, and fungal pathogenicity focused on host specificity

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Acknowledgments

I am deeply grateful to the late Dr. S. Sato, the late Dr. K. Tsubaki and the late Dr. Y. Hiratsuka, as well as to Dr. K. Katsuya, Dr. S. Tokumasu and Dr. M. Kakishima for their continuous support and helpful suggestions. The late Dr. K. Ohata, Dr. T. Kobayashi, the late Dr. A. Edzuka, Dr. T. Iijima, Dr. E. Hamaya, Dr. T. Inaba, Dr. K. Nishiyama, Dr. H. Koganezawa, Dr. Y. Sato, Dr. H. Horie and Dr. T. Aoki provided supervision and warm guidance. I am grateful to Dr. J. Moriwaki and Dr. U. Damm for their contributions to taxonomy and molecular phylogenetic analyses of Colletotrichum spp. I also thank Dr. K. Kishi, Mr. S. Uematsu, Dr. K. Tomioka, Dr. K. Tanaka, Dr. Y. Hirooka, Dr. T. Misawa, Dr. S. Uzuhashi, Dr. D. Kurose and many other coworkers for providing fungal materials and assistance in writing papers. Finally, I thank my parents, brothers, wife and children for their kind care and constant encouragement.

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Sato, T. Studies on the taxonomy and identification of plant pathogenic fungi, based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses, and fungal pathogenicity focused on host specificity. J Gen Plant Pathol 82, 332–337 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-016-0677-4

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