1. Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia.
- Author
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Pavlic D, Wingfield MJ, Barber P, Slippers B, Hardy GE, and Burgess TI
- Subjects
- Ascomycota cytology, Ascomycota genetics, Ascomycota isolation & purification, DNA, Fungal genetics, DNA, Ribosomal Spacer genetics, Fungal Proteins genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Peptide Elongation Factor 1 genetics, Phylogeny, Plant Bark microbiology, Western Australia, Adansonia microbiology, Ascomycota classification, Plant Diseases microbiology, Trees microbiology
- Abstract
In this study seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae are described from baobab (Adansonia gibbosa) and surrounding endemic tree species growing in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Members of the Botryosphaeriaceae were predominantly endophytes isolated from apparently healthy sapwood and bark of endemic trees; others were isolated from dying branches. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS and EF1-alpha sequence data revealed seven new species: Dothiorella longicollis, Fusicoccum ramosum, Lasiodiplodia margaritacea, Neoscytalidium novaehollandiae, Pseudofusicoccum adansoniae, P. ardesiacum and P. kimberleyense.
- Published
- 2008
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