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Stagonosporopsis spp. associated with ray blight disease of Asteraceae

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Ray blight disease of pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium) is shown to be caused by more than one species of Stagonosporopsis. The Australian pathogen, previously identified as Phoma ligulicola var. inoxydabilis, represents a new species described as Stagonosporopsis tanaceti based on morphological characters and a five-gene phylogeny employing partial sequences of the actin, translation elongation factor 1-alpha, internal transcribed spacers and 5.8S of the nrDNA, 28S large subunit and beta-tubulin 2 gene sequences. Furthermore, the two varieties of Stagonosporopsis ligulicola are elevated to species level as S. chrysanthemi and S. inoxydabilis based on their DNA phylogeny and morphology.

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We would like to thank Dr Frank Hay and Dr Suzanne Jones from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, for constructive discussion and information on the isolates. We are very grateful to Drs Johannes Z. Groenewald, Johannes De Gruyter, and Lorenzo Lombard for critical review of this paper. We thank the curators of CBS for providing cultures of the ex-type strains. This project was supported by Botanical Resources Australia—Agricultural Services Pty. Ltd.

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Vaghefi, N., Pethybridge, S.J., Ford, R. et al. Stagonosporopsis spp. associated with ray blight disease of Asteraceae . Australasian Plant Pathol. 41, 675–686 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-012-0161-3

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