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Species of the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides complex associated with anthracnose diseases of Proteaceae

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Anthracnose disease of Proteaceae has in the past chiefly been attributed to infections by C. acutatum, C. boninense and C. gloeosporioides. In the present study, a multi-locus phylogenetic analysis (ACT, CAL, CHS-1, GAPDH, GS, ITS, TUB2) revealed that strains of the C. gloeosporioides complex associated with Proteaceae belong to at least six species. These include C. alienum, C. aotearoa, C. kahawae (subsp. ciggaro), C. siamense, and two new taxa, C. proteae and C. grevilleae. The most economically important pathogen of Proteaceae seems to be C. alienum, and not C. gloeosporioides as previously reported. All taxa associated with Proteaceae are morphologically described on different media in culture, except strains of C. siamense, which proved to be sterile. Furthermore, C. populi is synonymised with C. aenigma.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the curators of the CBS culture collection for kindly supplying isolates for this study. We are also very grateful to Dr. Roger G. Shivas who gave valuable suggestions to our work on Colletotrichum taxonomy, during his academic visit to China (funded by NSFC 31110103906). This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31070020) and the External Cooperation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GJHZ1310). This research was also supported by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality through an endowment of the FES programme “Versterking infrastructuur Plantgezondheid”.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Fang Liu & Lei Cai

  2. Department of Biology, Microbiology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Fang Liu & Pedro W. Crous

  3. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ulrike Damm & Pedro W. Crous

  4. Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Liu, F., Damm, U., Cai, L. et al. Species of the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides complex associated with anthracnose diseases of Proteaceae . Fungal Diversity 61, 89–105 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-013-0249-2

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