Molecular systematics of the cotton root rot pathogen, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora

Cotton root rot is an important soilborne disease of cotton and numerous dicot plants in the south-western United States and Mexico. The causal organism, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (= Phymatotrichum omnivorum), is known only as an asexual, holoanamorphic (mitosporic) fungus, and produces conidia res...

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Published in:Persoonia 2009-06, Vol.22 (1), p.63-74
Main Authors: Marek, S M, Hansen, K, Romanish, M, Thorn, R G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ozonium
Pezizales
Phylogeny
Phymatotrichum Root Rot
Pulchromyces Fimicola
RDNA
Rpb2
Texas
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Summary:Cotton root rot is an important soilborne disease of cotton and numerous dicot plants in the south-western United States and Mexico. The causal organism, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (= Phymatotrichum omnivorum), is known only as an asexual, holoanamorphic (mitosporic) fungus, and produces conidia resembling those of Botrytis. Although the corticoid basidiomycetes Phanerochaete omnivora (Polyporales) and Sistotrema brinkmannii (Cantharellales; both Agaricomycetes) have been suggested as teleomorphs of Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, phylogenetic analyses of nuclear small- and large-subunit ribosomal DNA and subunit 2 of RNA polymerase II from multiple isolates indicate that it is neither a basidiomycete nor closely related to other species of Botrytis (Sclerotiniaceae, Leotiomycetes). Phymatotrichopsis omnivora is a member of the family Rhizinaceae, Pezizales (Ascomycota: Pezizomycetes) allied to Psilopezia and Rhizina.
ISSN:0031-5850
1878-9080
DOI:10.3767/003158509X430930