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Citation for Study 17885

About Citation title: "Two novel Fusarium species that cause canker disease of prickly ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum) in northern China form a novel clade with F. torreyae".
About Study name: "Two novel Fusarium species that cause canker disease of prickly ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum) in northern China form a novel clade with F. torreyae".
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Citation

Zhou X., O'donnell K., Aoki T., Smith J.A., Kasson M.T., & Cao Z. 2015. Two novel Fusarium species that cause canker disease of prickly ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum) in northern China form a novel clade with F. torreyae. Mycologia, .

Authors

  • Zhou X.
  • O'donnell K. Phone 309-681-6383
  • Aoki T.
  • Smith J.A.
  • Kasson M.T.
  • Cao Z.

Abstract

Canker disease of prickly ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim.) has caused a decline in the production of this economically important spice in northern China over the past twenty-five years. To identify the etiological agent, 38 fungal isolates were recovered from symptomatic tissues from trees in five provinces in China. These isolates were identified by conducting BLASTN searches of NCBI GenBank and phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data from the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (nuc rDNA ITS1-5.8S-ITS2), a portion of the translation elongation factor 1-? (TEF1) gene, and genes encoding RNA polymerase II largest (RPB1) and second largest (RPB2) subunits. Results of these analyses suggested that 30/38 isolates belonged to two novel fusaria most closely related to the Florida torreya (Torreya taxifolia Arn.) pathogen, Fusarium torreyae T. Aoki et al., in Florida and Georgia. These three canker-inducing tree pathogens form a novel clade within Fusarium here designated the F. torreyae species complex (FTOSC). BLASTN queries of GenBank also revealed that 5/38 isolates recovered from cankers represented an undescribed phylogenetic species within the F. solani species complex (FSSC) designated FSSC 6. Stem inoculations of three fusaria on Z. bungeanum resulted in consistent canker symptoms from which these three fusaria were recovered. The two novel fusaria, however, induced significantly larger lesions than FSSC 6. Herein, the two novel prickly ash pathogens are formally described as F. zanthoxyli and F. continuum.

Keywords

Fusarium continuum, Fusarium zanthoxyli, genealogical concordance, molecular phylogenetics, morphology, RPB2, TEF1

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