Verticillium alfalfae

Verticillium alfalfae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Glomerellales
Family:	Plectosphaerellaceae
Genus:	Verticillium
Species:	V. alfalfae
Binomial name
Verticillium alfalfae Inderb. et al.

Verticillium alfalfae is a fungus. It causes verticillium wilt in some plant species, particularly alfalfa. It produces yellow-pigmented hyphae and microsclerotia, while producing resting mycelium. It is most closely related to V. albo-atrum and V. nonalfalfae . ^[1]

References

1. Idnurm, Alexander; Inderbitzin, Patrik; Bostock, Richard M.; Davis, R. Michael; Usami, Toshiyuki; Platt, Harold W.; Subbarao, Krishna V. (2011). "Phylogenetics and Taxonomy of the Fungal Vascular Wilt Pathogen Verticillium, with the Descriptions of Five New Species". PLOS ONE. 6 (12): e28341. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028341 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   3233568 . PMID   22174791.

Further reading

• Inderbitzin, Patrik, et al. "Identification and differentiation of Verticillium species and V. longisporum lineages by simplex and multiplex PCR assays." PLoS ONE8.6 (2013): e65990.
• Stajner, Natasa. "Identification and Differentiation of Verticillium Species with PCR Markers and Sequencing of ITS Region." Plant and Animal Genome XXIII Conference. Plant and Animal Genome.
• Inderbitzin, Patrik, and Krishna V. Subbarao. "Taxonomic challenges-molecular evidence for species and sub-specific groups in Verticillium." 11 th International Verticillium Symposium. 2013.
• Inderbitzin, Patrik; Subbarao, Krishna V. (2014). "Verticillium systematics and evolution: How confusion impedes Verticillium wilt management and how to resolve it". Phytopathology. 104 (6): 564–574. doi: 10.1094/phyto-11-13-0315-ia . PMID   24548214.
• Tyvaert, L.; França, S.C.; Debode, J.; Höfte, M. (2014). "The endophyteVerticilliumVt305 protects cauliflower against Verticillium wilt". Journal of Applied Microbiology. 116 (6): 1563–1571. doi:10.1111/jam.12481. ISSN   1364-5072. PMID   24905219.

External links

• "Verticillium alfalfae". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• MycoBank