Taxonomy and Phylogeny of a new species of Pseudocercospora on Solanum nigrum from India

Authors

ARCHANA SINGH
SANJAY YADAV
RAGHVENDRA SINGH
NAWAL DUBEY

DOI

10.55730/1300-008X.2726

Abstract

A new species Pseudocercospora solanicola is discovered causing severe leaf spot disease on Solanum nigrum from Sonebhadra. Species is described and illustrated based on morphology, molecular sequence analysis and phylogeny of the large subunit (LSU) and internal transcribed spacer region of the nuclear ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene. Morphologically, new species has similarity with allied species in Pseudocercospora but differs in having black circular, velvety leaf spot and size of stromata, conidia and conidiophores. A key to Pseudocercospora species on Solanum has been provided.

Keywords

Taxonomy, Pseudocercospora, morphology, molecular phylogeny, Mycosphaerellaceae, Capnodiales

First Page

507

Last Page

516

Recommended Citation

SINGH, ARCHANA; YADAV, SANJAY; SINGH, RAGHVENDRA; and DUBEY, NAWAL (2022) "Taxonomy and Phylogeny of a new species of Pseudocercospora on Solanum nigrum from India," Turkish Journal of Botany: Vol. 46: No. 5, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-008X.2726
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/vol46/iss5/8