Abstract
Severe blight of stems was found on Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) in Shizuoka and Okinawa prefectures, Japan, in July 2003 and September 2004, respectively. Similar fungi were isolated from the diseased plants. The isolated fungi caused the disease after inoculation and subsequently were reisolated from diseased tissues. The fungi were identified as species closely related to C. siamense or C. tropicale according to sequences of the β-tubulin-2 gene, indicating that they belong to the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex. This is the first report specifying the genetic relationships of the pathogens of Madagascar periwinkle anthracnose in the complex.
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K. Tomioka, J. Nishikawa, J. Moriwaki and T. Sato contributed equally to this work.
The nucleotide sequence data reported here are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under the accession numbers AB334524, AB334760, AB774150 and AB774151.
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Tomioka, K., Nishikawa, J., Moriwaki, J. et al. Anthracnose of Madagascar periwinkle caused by species belonging to the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex. J Gen Plant Pathol 79, 374–377 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-013-0469-z
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