<i>Phyllosticta rizhaoensis sp. nov</i>. causing leaf blight of <i>Ophiopogon japonicus</i> in China.

ABSTRACT: Ophiopogon japonicus (Asparagaceae) is a perennial grass species which can be cultivated as an ornamental and medicinal plant. From April 2021 to September 2022, a serious leaf blight disease of O. japonicus was discovered in Rizhao City, Shandong Province, China. The initial disease symptoms were small yellow spots, finally developing as tip blight, often associated with many small, black, semi-immersed pycnidial conidiomata formed in lesions. To obtain isolates of the causal agent for this disease, samples were randomly collected from O. japonicus diseased leaves in Rizhao City. In total 97 Phyllosticta isolates were obtained from samples, and studied using morphological features and multi-locus phylogenetic analyses of a combined dataset using the inte

SUBMITTER: Wang CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10956614 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature