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A new species of Devriesia causing sooty blotch and flyspeck on Rubber Trees in China

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Sooty blotch and flyspeck is a fungal disease complex that colonizes a wide range of plants. In a survey of host plants for sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi, we obtained an isolate associated with discrete flyspeck symptom on stems of the Rubber Trees, Ficus elastica, from Haikou, Hainan, China. A pure culture was obtained, and the nuclear ITS region of rDNA was amplified by PCR. Molecular phylogeny inferred from ITS sequence data suggested that it was close to Devriesia strelitziae, reported from South Africa. Morphologically, it was characterized by longer conidia, more conidial septa, and having chlamydospores. Therefore, we describe our isolate as a novel species of Devriesia.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170015, 31171797), the 111 Project from Education Ministry of China (B07049), Top Talent Project of Northwest A&F University and the earmarked fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System (nycytx-08-04-04).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China

    Wenhuan Li, Yunxue Xiao, Chunsheng Wang, Jiling Dang, Chen Chen, Liu Gao & Guangyu Sun

  2. Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Jean C. Batzer & Mark L. Gleason

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Li, W., Xiao, Y., Wang, C. et al. A new species of Devriesia causing sooty blotch and flyspeck on Rubber Trees in China. Mycol Progress 12, 733–738 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-012-0885-z

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