Three New Species of Cyphellophora (Chaetothyriales) Associated with Sooty Blotch and Flyspeck

Liu Gao; Yongqiang Ma; Wanyu Zhao; Zhuoya Wei; Mark L Gleason; Hongcai Chen; Lu Hao; Guangyu Sun; Rong Zhang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136857

Three New Species of Cyphellophora (Chaetothyriales) Associated with Sooty Blotch and Flyspeck

PLoS One. 2015 Sep 23;10(9):e0136857. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136857. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Liu Gao¹, Yongqiang Ma², Wanyu Zhao¹, Zhuoya Wei¹, Mark L Gleason³, Hongcai Chen¹, Lu Hao¹, Guangyu Sun¹, Rong Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China.
² Institute of Plant Protection, Qinghai Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Xining, Qinghai Province, China.
³ Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.

Abstract

The genus Cyphellophora includes human- and plant-related species from mammal skin and nails, plant materials, and food. On the basis of analysis of ITS, LSU, TUB2 and RPB1 data and morphological characters, three new species, Cyphellophora phyllostachysdis, C. artocarpi and C. musae, associated with sooty blotch and flyspeck disease, were added to this genus. The 2D structure of ITS1 and ITS2 confirmed this taxonomic status. Pathogenicity tests on apple fruit indicated that C. artocarpi could be a sooty blotch and flyspeck pathogen of apple.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ascomycota / classification*
Ascomycota / cytology
Ascomycota / genetics*
Ascomycota / isolation & purification
Ascomycota / pathogenicity
DNA, Intergenic
DNA, Plant
DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
Genes, Plant
Malus / microbiology*
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Phylogeny
Plant Diseases / microbiology*

Substances

DNA, Intergenic
DNA, Plant
DNA, Ribosomal

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170015, 31171797), the 111 Project from Education Ministry of China (B07049) and the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System (CARS-28) http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.