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Taxonomic re-evaluation of the Ceratobasidium-Rhizoctonia complex and Rhizoctonia butinii, a new species attacking spruce

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A taxonomic re-evaluation of the Ceratobasidium-Rhizoctonia group suggests that Ceratobasidium contains only the type species C. calosporum, which deviates in micromorphological and ultrastructural characters from all other species so far included in that genus. Rhizoctonia species are compared with the type species of Ceratobasidium, Cejpomyces, Oncobasidium, Tofispora, Waitea, and Ypsilonidium. The micromorphology, ultrastructure, cellular interaction with the host, and molecular phylogeny of a Rhizoctonia species parasitic on needles and young shoots of Picea abies have been studied. The parasite has been known for a long time, but misinterpreted, and not named so far. Rhizoctonia butinii is described and compared with related species of the genus.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the chance to study collections of a basidiomycetous spruce parasite, made available by Heinz Butin as herbarium collections and cultures. Wolfgang Maier, Julius Kühn-Institut, Braunschweig, kindly provided two additional sequences of Rhizoctonia butinii. The support of our technical staff, C. Karasch-Wittmann and S. Süßbrich, to carry out this work, is highly appreciated.

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    Franz Oberwinkler, Kai Riess, Robert Bauer & Sigisfredo Garnica

  2. Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Jhongli City, 320, Taoyuan County, Taiwan (Republic of China)

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Oberwinkler, F., Riess, K., Bauer, R. et al. Taxonomic re-evaluation of the Ceratobasidium-Rhizoctonia complex and Rhizoctonia butinii, a new species attacking spruce. Mycol Progress 12, 763–776 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-013-0936-0

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