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Two new Ceratobasidium species causing white thread blight on tropical plants in Brazil

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White thread blight is one of the most common diseases affecting several tree species that grow in warm and humid regions. The typical symptoms of this disease include blighted leaves hanging by a white thread of fungal hyphae. Leaf samples exhibiting white thread blight symptoms were collected from neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) and Brazilian cherry pitanga (Eugenia uniflora L.) plants in Northeastern Brazil, and from Indian green-tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze), coffee (Coffea arabica L.), and persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) in agricultural areas neighboring the Atlantic forest in Southeastern Brazil. Fungal isolates were obtained indirectly from leaf fragments or directly by transferring mycelia and sclerotia to culture medium. Bright field and scanning electron microscopy images revealed the association of Rhizoctonia-like hyphae and basidiospores with the infected leaves. In pathogenicity tests, Rhizoctonia-like fungal isolates induced leaf necrosis on their hosts, and the pathogens were re-isolated from inoculated plants. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of the ITS rRNA region indicated the occurrence of Ceratobasidium lineages distinct from previously reported Ceratobasidium species. Our study leads to the description of two new species of Ceratobasidium: the fungal isolates from A. indica, C. sinensis, and E. uniflora were classified as Ceratobasidium niltonsouzanum sp. nov., and those obtained from C. arabica and D. kaki as Ceratobasidium chavesanum sp. nov.

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The authors thank Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)/Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD) for granting post-doctoral fellowship to MPM, KSM and SIM. This study was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, grant number 04/1980-0 to PCC).

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  1. Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará – UFOPA, Campus Juruti, Juruti, PA, 68170-000, Brazil

    Maruzanete P. de Melo

  2. Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Roraima – UFRR, Boa Vista, RR, 69310-000, Brazil

    Kedma S. Matos

  3. Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras – UFLA, Lavras, MG, 37200-000, Brazil

    Silvino I. Moreira, Fabiano F. Silva & Eduardo Alves

  4. Departamento de Fitossanidade, Engenharia Rural e Solos, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio Mesquita Filho” – UNESP, Ilha Solteira, SP, 15385-000, Brazil

    Grace H. Conceição & Paulo C. Ceresini

  5. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Rodovia SP 340, Tanquinho Velho, Jaguariúna, SP, 13820-000, Brazil

    Kátia L. Nechet & Bernardo A. Halfeld-Vieira

  6. Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal do Piauí – UFPI, Ininga, Teresina, PI, 64049-550, Brazil

    José E. A. Beserra Júnior

  7. Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural – INCAPER, Vitória, ES, 29052-010, Brazil

    José A. Ventura & Hélcio Costa

  8. Departamento de Fitossanidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio Mesquita Filho” – UNESP, Botucatu, SP, 18610-307, Brazil

    Edson L. Furtado

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de Melo, M.P., Matos, K.S., Moreira, S.I. et al. Two new Ceratobasidium species causing white thread blight on tropical plants in Brazil. Trop. plant pathol. 43, 559–571 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40858-018-0237-x

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