Three new Pleosporalean genera for the funga of Iran

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Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

10.22043/MI.2024.365383.1279

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Pleosporalean fungi are important plant pathogens, saprobes, and endophytes found in a wide range of economically important plants. To identify the fungi associated with branch and stem canker symptoms in plants, the gardens and forests of Guilan and Mazandaran provinces were surveyed, and infected plant samples were collected from common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), common rue (Ruta graveolens), and oriental persimmon (Diospyros kaki) plants during the autumn of 2021. Fungal strains were isolated and purified by common procedures, and then were morphologically identified. Molecular identification of the fungal strains was performed using the sequence data of the ITS rDNA region. Based on the combined data, three fungal genera and their related species belonging to the order Pleosporales including Acrocalymma walkeri from oriental persimmon, Setophaeosphaeria badalingensis from common rue, and Tremateia chromolaenae from common hawthorn, were identified and characterized. All these three species are new to the funga of Iran. In addition, Diospyros kaki, Crataegus monogyna, and Ruta graveolens have been reported as new hosts (matrix nova) for the respective identified fungal taxa worldwide
 

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Mycologia Iranica
Volume 11, Issue 1
June 2024
Pages 19-28

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