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Current status of the Botryosphaeriaceae in Australia

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The Botryosphaeriales, and in particular the Botryosphaeriaceae, are a well-studied group of fungi best known for the canker diseases they cause on woody hosts especially in stressed or damaged trees. Australian Plant Pathology herbaria contain many records for this group, but due to considerable taxonomic changes over the past decade, many of the species names have since been reclassified. In this article we used all published records with available sequence data of the Botryosphaeriaceae in Australia to examine the distribution and host range of these taxa. There are 24 genera encompassing 222 species in the Botryosphaeriaceae; 9 genera and 62 species have been recorded in Australia. Some genera such as Neoscytalidium are only found in warm, humid climates while Dothiorella species are more common in temperate climates. There were species, such as Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Neofusicoccum parvum and Botryosphaeria dothidea, which had a wide host range with many records. However, there were also several species found only in one location on a single host. While systematic data collection is still required, the information presented here provides a baseline of species present in Australia and will underpin future studies into this group of important pathogens.

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The authors would like to thank all the plant health diagnostic staff and herbaria curatorial staff for isolating and maintaining the cultures accessed from BRIP and VPRI.

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  1. School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia

    Treena I. Burgess

  2. Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Treena I. Burgess, Jeff Garnas & Fahimeh Jami

  3. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Biosecurity Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park, QLD, 4012, Australia

    Yu Pei Tan & Roger G. Shivas

  4. Microbiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Yu Pei Tan

  5. Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 56 College Road, Durham, NH, 03864, USA

    Jeff Garnas

  6. Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, AgriBio Centre, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia

    Jacqueline Edwards & Quang Dinh

  7. La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia

    Jacqueline Edwards

  8. Sydney Institute of Agriculture, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia

    Kelly A. Scarlett

  9. Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia

    Lucas A. Shuttleworth

  10. Department of Primary Industries, Central Coast Centre for Primary Industries, Ourimbah, New South Wales, Australia

    Rosalie Daniel

  11. Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park, QLD, 4102, Australia

    Elizabeth K. Dann & Louisamarie E. Parkinson

  12. Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Roger G. Shivas

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Local Moran’s I estimates for each species represented on the phylogeny of Botryosphaeriaceae species in Australia based on climate index 1 (left) and 2 (right). Red bars are statistically significant at α=0.05. (PDF 13 kb)

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Burgess, T.I., Tan, Y.P., Garnas, J. et al. Current status of the Botryosphaeriaceae in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathol. 48, 35–44 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-018-0577-5

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