Cercosporoid fungi (former Cercospora s. lat.) represent one of the largest groups of hyphomycetes belonging to the Mycosphaerellaceae (Ascomycota). They include asexual morphs, asexual holomorphs or species with mycosphaerella-like sexual morphs. Most of them are leaf-spotting plant pathogens with special phytopathological relevance. The only monograph of Cercospora s. lat., published by Chupp...

Conidia play a vital role in the survival and rapid spread of fungi. Many biological processes conidia, such as adhesion, signal transduction, regulation oxidative stress, autophagy, have been well studied. In contrast, contribution pathogenicity factors during development conidia fungal phytopathogens has poorly investigated. To date, few reports centered on functions phytopathogen conidia. Ps...

Angular leaf spot of Phaseolus vulgaris is a serious disease caused by Phaeoisariopsis griseola, in which two major gene pools occur, namely Andean and Middle-American. Sequence analysis of the SSU region of nrDNA revealed the genus Phaeoisariopsis to be indistinguishable from other hyphomycete anamorph genera associated with Mycosphaerella, namely Pseudocercospora and Stigmina. A new combinati...

The sensitivity of 73 isolates of Mycosphaerella graminicola collected over the period 1993–2002 from wheat fields in South England was tested in vitro against the triazole fluquinconazole, the strobilurin azoxystrobin and to the imidazole prochloraz. Over the sampling period, sensitivity of the population to fluquinconazole and prochloraz decreased by factors of approximately 10 and 2, respect...

Mycosphaerellaceae is a highly diverse fungal family containing variety of pathogens affecting many economically important crops. Mitochondria play crucial role in metabolism and the study evolution. This aims to: (i) describe mitochondrial genome Pseudocercospora fijiensis, (ii) compare it with closely related species (Sphaerulina musiva, S. populicola, P. musae eumusae) available online, payi...