<i>Fusarium </i> and allied genera from China: species diversity and distribution

The genus Fusarium includes numerous important plant and human pathogens, as well many industrially commercially species. During our investigation of fungal diversity in China, a total 356 fusarioid isolates were obtained identified from diverse diseased healthy plants, or different environmental habitats, i.e., air, carbonatite, compost, faeces, soil water, representing hitherto one the most intensive sampling identification efforts taxa China. Combining morphology, multi-locus phylogeny ecological preference, these 72 species allied genera, Bisifusarium (1), (60), Neocosmospora (11). A seven-locus dataset, comprising 5.8S nuclear ribosomal RNA gene with two flanking internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions, intergenic region rDNA (IGS), partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha ( tef1 ), calmodulin (cam), polymerase largest subunit rpb1 second rpb2 ) β-tubulin tub2 sequenced employed phylogenetic analyses. genus-level tree was constructed using combined , sequences, which confirmed presence four genera among studied. Further analyses nine complexes separately conducted employing datasets, to determine relationships closely related Twelve novel described this paper. F. babinda complex is herein renamed falsibabinda complex, including descriptions new Sixteen reported records