Palm Foliage as Pathways of Pathogenic Botryosphaeriaceae Fungi and Host of New Lasiodiplodia Species from Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Tropical palm foliage is increasingly imported to satisfy the steady growing demand in European floristry. This palm foliage presumably carries along diverse fungi whose taxonomic and functional diversity have not been addressed so far. The present study investigated Botryosphaeriaceae fungi associated with the foliage of palm species Chamaedorea elegans, C. metallica, C. seifrizii, Dypsis lutescens and Lodoicea maldivica imported from Mexico. Five species were identified using combined morphological characterisation and multilocus phylogenetic analyses based on ITS, TEF-1α, TUB2 and RPB2. In addition to Endomelanconiopsis endophytica, Lasiodiplodia brasiliensis and L. euphorbicola, two new species,

SUBMITTER: Douanla-Meli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8541634 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature