• DOI:10.1007/s11557-016-1162-3
Corpus ID: 17617884

Pseudopestalotiopsis ignota and Ps. camelliae spp. nov. associated with grey blight disease of tea in China

@article{Maharachchikumbura2016PseudopestalotiopsisIA,
  title={Pseudopestalotiopsis ignota and Ps. camelliae spp. nov. associated with grey blight disease of tea in China},
  author={S. Maharachchikumbura and Liang-Dong Guo and Z. Liu and K. Hyde},
  journal={Mycological Progress},
  year={2016},
  volume={15},
  pages={1-7}
}

S. Maharachchikumbura, Liang-Dong Guo, +1 author K. Hyde

Published 2016

Biology

Mycological Progress

We combined morphological and combined ITS, TUB and TEF sequence data to infer the phylogeny of the recently introduced genus Pseudopestalotiopsis. Two new species from China, Ps. camelliae from blighted leaves of Camellia sinensis and Ps. ignota from an undetermined host in China, are introduced with illustrated accounts and compared with similar taxa. Grey blight disease of tea appears to be caused by a group of fungi that constitutes a species complex. A new combination is proposed to emend… CONTINUE READING

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