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Research Project: Fungal Systematics and Diagnostic Resource Development for Safeguarding Plant Health

Location: Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory

Title: Fusarium and allied fusarioid taxa (FUSA). 1

Author
item CROUS, PEDRO - Fungal Biodiversity
item SANDOVAL-DENIS, W - Fungal Biodiversity
item COSTA, M - Fungal Biodiversity
item GROENEWALD, J - Fungal Biodiversity
item VAN IPEREN, AL - Fungal Biodiversity
item STARINK-WILLEMSE, M - Fungal Biodiversity
item HERNÁNDEZ-RESTREPO, M - Fungal Biodiversity
item Salgado-Salazar, Catalina

Submitted to: Fungal Systematics and Evolution
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/14/2022
Publication Date: 6/23/2022
Citation: Crous, P.W., Sandoval-Denis, W., Costa, M.M., Groenewald, J.Z., Van Iperen, A., Starink-Willemse, M., Hernández-Restrepo, M., Salgado-Salazar, C. 2022. Fusarium and allied fusarioid taxa (FUSA). 1. Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 9(1):161-200. https://doi.org/10.3114/fuse.2022.09.08
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3114/fuse.2022.09.08

Interpretive Summary: Fusarium and its relatives are globally distributed fungi, found mostly in soil, living and dead plant material, air, and water. Species in this genus can be devastating plant pathogens, able to cause a wide spectrum of diseases on many important crops inducing cankers, diebacks, dry rot of roots and seeds, scab, wilt, and other diseases. These fungi are also capable of producing numerous mycotoxins that endanger animal and human health. The main goal of this work is to publish modern descriptions of important species, based on thorough microscopic examination, DNA sequences, ecological data, and novel resources including genomic data. These data will be available in an online database, which aims to provide a stable, regularly updated and user-friendly platform for the identification of Fusarium and related fungi. These data will be used by mycologists, plant pathologist, regulatory officials and extension personnel to identify pathogenic or exotic species.

Technical Abstract: Seven Fusarium species complexes are treated, namely F. aywerte species complex (FASC) (two species), F. buharicum species complex (FBSC) (five species), F. burgessii species complex (FBURSC) (three species), F. camptoceras species complex (FCAMSC) (three species), F. chlamydosporum species complex (FCSC) (eight species), F. citricola species complex (FCCSC) (five species) and the F. concolor species complex (FCOSC or FconSC) (four species). New species include Fusicolla elongata from soil (Zimbabwe), and Neocosmospora geoasparagicola from soil associated with Asparagus officinalis (Netherlands). New combinations include Neocosmospora akasia, N. awan, N. drepaniformis, N. duplosperma, N. geoasparagicola, N. mekan, N. papillata, N. variasi and N. warna. Newly validated taxa include Longinectria gen. nov., L. lagenoides, L. verticilliforme, Fusicolla gigas and Fusicolla guangxiensis. Furthermore, Fusarium rosicola is reduced to synonymy under N. brevis.