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Unveiling Members of Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex Causing Colletotrichum Leaf Disease of Hevea brasiliensis in Sri Lanka

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Colletotrichum is an important fungal genus with great diversity, which causes anthracnose of a variety of crop plants including rubber trees. Colletotrichum acutatum and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides have been identified as the major causative agents of Colletotrichum leaf disease of rubber trees in Sri Lanka based on morphology, pathogenicity, and the analysis of internally transcribed spacer sequences of the nuclear ribosomal DNA. This study has been conducted to investigate the members of the C. acutatum species complex causing rubber leaf disease using a morphological and multi gene approach. For the first time in Sri Lanka, Colletotrichum simmondsii, Colletotrichum laticiphilum, Colletotrichum nymphaeae, and Colletotrichum citri have been identified as causative agents of Colletotrichum leaf disease in addition to C. acutatum s. str. Among them, C. simmondsii has been recognized as the major causative agent.

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This study was supported by HETC project (HETC/CMB/SCI/TOR8).

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Colombo, Colombo, 0003, Sri Lanka

    D. M. Hunupolagama, H. S. Kathriarachchi & R. L. C. Wijesundera

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Colombo, 0003, Sri Lanka

    N. V. Chandrasekharan

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, 0008, Sri Lanka

    W. S. S. Wijesundera

  4. Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka, Dartonfield, Agalawaththa, Sri Lanka

    T. H. P. S. Fernando

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Hunupolagama, D.M., Chandrasekharan, N.V., Wijesundera, W.S.S. et al. Unveiling Members of Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex Causing Colletotrichum Leaf Disease of Hevea brasiliensis in Sri Lanka. Curr Microbiol 74, 747–756 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-017-1238-6

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