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A new species of Scolecobasidium associated with the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex on banana from China

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Sooty blotch and flyspeck is caused by a complex of epiphytic fungi on diverse hosts. A fungus morphologically similar to Scolecobasidium humicola was isolated from a banana fruit exhibiting SBFS signs in Hainan, China. ITS and LSU sequences of rDNA corroborated that it was a Scolecobasidium species. The results of LSU rDNA analysis support the interpretation that Ochroconis is synonymous with Scolecobasidium. Five new combinations, S. anomalum, S. calidifluminale, S. gallopavum, S. gamsii, and S. lascauxense, were proposed. A new species, S. musae, was described based on morphological characteristics and sequence comparison with previous species.

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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, 712100, People’s Republic of China

    Lu Hao, Chen Chen, Rong Zhang, Mingqi Zhu & Guangyu Sun

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

    Mark L. Gleason

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Hao, L., Chen, C., Zhang, R. et al. A new species of Scolecobasidium associated with the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex on banana from China. Mycol Progress 12, 489–495 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-012-0855-5

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