Fusarium and allied genera from China: species diversity and distribution
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Taxonomic survey reveals 72 fusarioid species across diverse environmental habitats, highlighting fungal diversity and novel taxa.
Key Points
- Investigate the species diversity, distribution, and phylogenetic relationships of Fusarium and allied fungal genera from diverse plant and environmental sources in China.
- Sampled 356 fusarioid isolates from diseased and healthy plants as well as environmental habitats including air, carbonatite, compost, faeces, soil, and water.
- Integrated morphological characterization, ecological data, and multi-locus phylogenetic sequencing across up to seven gene loci (ITS, IGS, tef1, cam, rpb1, rpb2, tub2).
- Constructed a genus-level phylogeny using tef1, rpb1, and rpb2, followed by targeted multi-locus analyses for Bisifusarium, Neocosmospora, and nine Fusarium species complexes.
- Identified 72 distinct species across Bisifusarium (1), Fusarium (60), and Neocosmospora (11) from the 356 analyzed isolates.
- Discovered and described 12 novel fungal species and established 16 species as newly recorded in China.
- Renamed the F. babinda species complex to the F. falsibabinda species complex based on updated phylogenetic relationships.
Cite This Study
Wang et al. (2022) studied this question.