Journal
FUNGAL BIOLOGY
Volume 120, Issue 11, Pages 1291-1322Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2015.09.013
Keywords
Bull's eye rot; Dermateaceae; Helotiales; Multi-gene phylogeny; Systematics
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- China Scholarship Council [201306300134]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170015]
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Species in Neofabraea, Pezicula, and related genera have been reported as saprobes, plant pathogens or endophytes from a wide range of hosts. The asexual morphs of Neofabraea and Pezicula had been placed in Cryptosporiopsis, now a synonym of Pezicula, while Neofabraea was also linked to Phlyctema. Based on morphology and molecular data of the partial large subunit nrDNA (LSU), the internal transcribed spacer region with intervening 5.8S nrDNA (ITS), partial beta-tubulin region (tub2), and the partial RNA polymerase II second largest subunit region (rpb2), the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of these fungi were investigated. Five new species were described in Pezicula based on morphology, while a further eight unnamed phylogenetic lineages revealed further diversity in the genus. Based on these results, the generic concept of Neofabraea was also emended. Phlyctema, which was previously associated with Neofabraea, formed a distinct Glade, separate from Neofabraea s. str. Two new neofabraea-like genera, Parafabraea and Pseudofabraea were proposed, along with one new combination in Neofabraea s. str. To stabilise the application of these names, an epitype was designated for Pe. carpinea, the type species of Pezicula, and for N. malicorticis, the type species of Neofabraea. (C) 2015 British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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