Title of article
Phaeoacremonium tuscanicum, a new fungal pathogen associated with oak decline in Zagros forests, Iran
Author/Authors
Bashiri, S Department of Plant Protection - Faculty of Agriculture - University of Kurdistan - Sanandaj, Iran , Abdollahzadeh, J Department of Plant Protection - Faculty of Agriculture - University of Kurdistan - Sanandaj, Iran , Evidente, A Department of Chemical Sciences - University of Naples Federico II - Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo - Napoli, Italy
Pages
6
From page
247
To page
252
Abstract
An extensive survey on phylogeny and pathology of fungi associated with the oak decline in Zagros forests located in Western Azarbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Lorestan, and Ilam provinces, a large number of collected fungal isolates seventeen isolates morphologically resembled the members of Phaeoacremonium. Similar DNA fingerprinting patterns were generated for all isolates using M13 primer. Thus, one representative isolate (IRAN 4348C) was analyzed based on tub2 sequence data using maximum parsimony and neighbor-joining algorithms and identified as Phaeoacremonium tuscanicum. Pathogenicity was confirmed following Koch’s postulates on two-year-old Quercus brantii seedlings under greenhouse conditions. To our knowledge, it is the first time Ph. tuscanicum is reported from oak trees and confirmed as a pathogenic fungal species on Q. brantii in the world.
Keywords
tub2 , pathogenicity , phylogeny , Morphology
Journal title
Mycologia Iranica
Serial Year
2020
Record number
2629338
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