Cochliobolus

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Cochliobolus
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Symptoms of Cochliobolus miyabeanus , the causal agent of brown spot, on rice
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Genus: Cochliobolus
Drechsler
Type species
Cochliobolus heterostrophus
(Drechsler) Drechslera

The fungal genus Cochliobolus includes 19 species, [1] it includes some plant pathogenic species such as Cochliobolus heterostrophus. A lot of former Cochliobolus species were transferred to either Curvularia or Bipolaris genera. [1]

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Cochliobolus heterostrophus is known from "southern corn blight" which affects corn and maize. [2]

Heterothallism and homothallism

Those fungi that need a partner to mate are referred to as heterothallic (self-sterile), and those fungi not needing a partner are referred to as homothallic (self-fertile). A study of DNA sequences of mating type loci from different heterothallic and homothallic species in the genus Cochliobolus suggests that homothallism can be derived from heterothallism by recombination. [3]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum; [1]

Former species (all within Pleosporaceae family); [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Species Fungorum - Search Page - Cochliobolus". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Cochliobolus heterostrophus C5" . Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Yun SH1, Berbee ML; Yoder, OC; Turgeon, BG (May 1999). "Evolution of the fungal self-fertile reproductive life style from self-sterile ancestors". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 96 (10): 5592–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.10.5592. PMC   21905 . PMID   10318929.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


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