Abstract
In November 2013, a Japanese fruit importer noted a large, black, water-soaked lesion at the stem end of a mango from the Philippines. A fungus was isolated from the lesion and identified as a Neofusicoccum sp. closely related to Neofusicoccum sp. karanda, based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses. The isolated fungus caused black, water-soaked lesions on mango after back-inoculation. The symptoms were also very similar to those caused by Lasiodiplodia theobromae, which causes stem-end rot on mangos in Japan. Therefore, we propose the addition of Neofusicoccum sp. closely related to Neofusicoccum sp. karanda as a cause of stem-end rot on mango.
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We gratefully thank Prof. K. Watanabe and Mr. S. Nozawa (Tamagawa University) for their valuable advice about conidial formation.
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Accession numbers of sequences of UTLPPF131101
LC101450 [ITS], LC101451 [translation elongation factor 1-α], LC101452 [β-tubulin], LC127212 [RNA polymerase subunit II].
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Hara, S., Kitazawa, Y., Neriya, Y. et al. First report of a Neofusicoccum sp. causing stem-end rot of mango. J Gen Plant Pathol 82, 314–317 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-016-0683-6
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