UNLABELLED The genus Cercospora contains numerous important plant pathogenic fungi from a diverse range of hosts. Most species of Cercospora are known only from their morphological characters in vivo. Although the genus contains more than 5 000 names, very few cultures and associated DNA sequence data are available. In this study, 360 Cercospora isolates, obtained from 161 host species, 49 host...

The genus Cercospora includes many important plant pathogenic fungi associated with leaf spot diseases on a wide range of hosts. The mainland of Iran covers various climatic regions with a great biodiversity of vascular plants, and a correspondingly high diversity of cercosporoid fungi. However, most of the cercosporoid species found to date have been identified on the basis of morphological ch...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) Walp is known to be affected by several fungal, bacterial and viral diseases. One of such fungal diseases reported to cause serious yield loss in the cowpea is the Cercospora leaf spot disease caused by two fungi namely, Cercospora canescens Ellis and Martin and Cercospora cruenta [1]. Yield loss attributed to Cercosora leaf spot in susceptible cowpea variety varie...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) Walp is known to be affected by several fungal, bacterial and viral diseases. One of such fungal diseases reported to cause serious yield loss in the cowpea is the Cercospora leaf spot disease caused by two fungi namely, Cercospora canescens Ellis and Martin and Cercospora cruenta [1]. Yield loss attributed to Cercosora leaf spot in susceptible cowpea variety varie...

ABSTRACT Most of the 3,000 named species in the genus Cercospora have no known sexual stage, although a Mycosphaerella teleomorph has been identified for a few. Mycosphaerella is an extremely large and important genus of plant pathogens, with more than 1,800 named species and at least 43 associated anamorph genera. The goal of this research was to perform a large-scale phylogenetic analysis to ...

Diseases of soybean caused by Cercospora spp. are endemic throughout the world's soybean production regions. Species diversity in the genus Cercospora has been underestimated due to overdependence on morphological characteristics, symptoms, and host associations. Currently, only two species (Cercospora kikuchii and C. sojina) are recognized to infect soybean; C. kikuchii causes Cercospora leaf ...

The genus Mycosphaerella Johanson, contains more than 3000 names (Aptroot 2006), and has been linked to more than 30 well-known anamorphic genera (Crous 2006a and 2006b). It has a worldwide distribution from tropical and subtropical to warm and cool regions (Crous 1998; Crous et al. 2000 and 2001). Mycosphaerella, however, has been associated with at least 27 different coelomycete or hyphomycet...

Fungi associated with leaf spot symptoms of plants in forest areas of Golestan province, Iran, were collected and examined based on morphological characteristics of conidiophores, conidia and conidiogenous loci. Ten taxa were identified. Among the taxa, Passalora cf. bacilligera and Pseudocladosporium hachijoens are new records for the mycobiota of Iran. Cercospora on Eruca sp. was morphologica...

The genus Cercospora is one of the largest and most heterogeneous genera of hyphomycetes. Cercospora species are distributed worldwide and cause Cercospora leaf spot on most of the major plant families. Numerous species described from diverse hosts and locations are morphologically indistinguishable from C. apii and subsequently are referred to as C. apii sensu lato. The importance and ecologic...