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Two Alternaria species were isolated from two Solanaceae plants in China, 2017. Both were determined based on morphological characteristics and multigene sequence analysis of the internal spacer rDNA region (ITS), translation-elongation factor 1 alpha (TEF1), glyceraldehydes-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), Alternaria major allergen gene (ALT), and RNA polymerase second largest subunit (RPB2). One species from Solanum tuberosum was identified as Alternaria blumeae, and another from Physalis alkekengi was described as a new species. Alternaria blumeae is firstly reported from S. tuberosum in China. The new species was described and illustrated here, as Alternaria physalidis sp. nov. It is clearly distinct from the phylogenetically related species, A. zinniae, in the conidial body length and number of septa.
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The authors sincerely thank Prof. Jian Ma for the assistance on nomenclature of the new species.
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The financial support of the work was given by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31400014) and the Young Scientist Foundation of Yangtze University (2016cqr08).
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Liu, H.F., Liao, J., Chen, X.Y. et al. A novel species and a new record of Alternaria isolated from two Solanaceae plants in China. Mycol Progress 18, 1005–1012 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-019-01504-3
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