Metulocladosporiella gen. nov. for the causal organism of Cladosporium speckle disease of banana

• Published in: Mycological research Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 264 - 275
• Main Authors: Crous, Pedro W., Schroers, Hans-Josef, Groenewald, Johannes Z., Braun, Uwe, Schubert, Konstanze
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2006
• Subjects: Ascomycota; bananas; Chaetothyriales; Cladosporium; Cladosporium - classification; Cladosporium - cytology; Cladosporium - genetics; Cladosporium musae; complex; culture; Dothideales; fungal anatomy; fungal diseases of plants; genera; host plants; Hyphomycetes; internal transcribed spacers; leaf spotting; Metulocladosporiella; Metulocladosporiella musae; Metulocladosporiella musicola; Molecular phylogeny; molecular systematics; Musa; Musa - virology; Mycosphaerellaceae; new genus; new geographic records; new species; Phylogeny; Plant Diseases - microbiology; plant pathogenic fungi; Plant pathology; ribosomal DNA; ribosomal dna-sequences; sequence analysis; Sequence Analysis, DNA; speckle disease; taxonomic keys; taxonomy; Honduras; Mexico; South Africa; Jamaica; Musa; Plant pathology; Hyphomycetes; Molecular phylogeny; Chaetothyriales

Cladosporium musae, a widespread leaf-spotting hyphomycete on Musa spp., is genetically and morphologically distinct from Cladosporium s. str. ( Davidiella anamorphs, Mycosphaerellaceae, Dothideales). DNA sequence data derived from the ITS and LSU gene regions of C. musae isolates show that this spe...