- Glomerella graminicola
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Glomerella graminicola Scientific classification Kingdom: Fungi Phylum: Ascomycota Subphylum: Pezizomycotina Class: Sordariomycetes Order: Glomerellales Family: Glomerellaceae Genus: Glomerella Species: G. graminicola Binomial name Glomerella graminicola
D.J. Politis (1975)Synonyms Colletotrichopsis graminicola (Ces.) Munt.-Cvetk. (1953)
Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W. Wilson (1914)
Dicladium graminicola Ces. [as 'graminicolum'] (1852)
Steirochaete graminicola (Ces.) Sacc. (1923)
Vermicularia melicae FuckelGlomerella graminicola (anamorph Colletotrichum graminicola) is a fungus which causes anthracnose many cereal species including maize and wheat.
Contents
Identification
Stromata
- 70-300 μm in diameter
- Bear prominent, dark, septate spines (setae) up to 100 μm long.
Conidia
- Developing at the base of the spines
- Hyaline to pale yellow, unicellular, sickle-shaped, falcate to fusiform, tapered toward both ends
- 3-5 x 19-29 μm.
Phialides
- Unicellular, hylanine and cylindrical,
- 4-8 x 8-20 μm.
Growth on PDA
- Gray and feltlike
- Conidia and appressoria are numerous when culture are well aerated, and sclerotia sometimes occur.
- Appressoria are diagnostic: they are tawny brown, irregular-shaped in edge, prominent, and terminal on thickened hyphae.
References
Research articles
Crouch, J.A.; B.B. Clarke and B.I. Hillman (2006). "Unraveling evolutionary relationships among the divergent lineages of Colletotrichum causing anthracnose disease in turfgrass and corn". Phytopathology 96 (1): 46–60. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-96-0046. PMID 18944204. http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO-96-0046.
Mims, C.W.; L.J. Vaillancourt (2002). "Ultrastructural characterization of infection and colonization of maize leaves by Colletotrichum graminicola, and by a C. graminicola pathogenicity mutant.". Phytopathology 92 (7): 803–812. doi:10.1094/PHYTO.2002.92.7.803. PMID 18943278. http://www.apsnet.org/phyto/pdfs/2002/0528-01R.pdf.
External links
- Index Fungorum
- USDA ARS Fungal Database
- The Vaillancourt Lab
- Japanese Fungi on Plants No.36
- Colletotrichum dot org
Categories:- Sordariomycetes
- Plant pathogens and diseases
- Cereal diseases
- Sordariomycetes stubs
- Plant disease stubs
- Agriculture stubs
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