Vol. 53 No. 2 (2014): Special Issue on FutureIPM
Research Papers

Diaporthe species associated with Vaccinium, with specific reference to Europe

Lorenzo LOMBARD
CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gerard van LEEUWEN
Dutch National Plant Protection Organization
Vladimiro GUARNACCIA
Dipartimento di Gestione deiSistemi Agroalimentari e Ambientali Sez
Giancarlo POLIZZI
Dipartimento di Gestione deiSistemi Agroalimentari e Ambientali Sez
Patricia van RIJSWICK
Dutch National Plant Protection Organization
Karin ROSENDAHL
Dutch National Plant Protection Organization
Jutta GABLER
Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics of the Julius Kühn-Institute
Pedro CROUS
CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre

Published 2014-09-06

Keywords

  • Diaporthe vaccinii

How to Cite

[1]
L. LOMBARD, “Diaporthe species associated with Vaccinium, with specific reference to Europe”, Phytopathol. Mediterr., vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 287–299, Sep. 2014.

Abstract

Species of the genus Vaccinium are commercially cultivated in Europe for their berries, which are highly valued for dietary and pharmaceutical properties. Cultivation is severely limited due to a range of fungal diseases, especially those caused by species of Diaporthe. A number of Diaporthe isolates have been collected from Vaccinium growing regions in Europe, and initially identified as D. vaccinii based on host association. Using DNA sequence inference of the combined β-tubulin, calmodulin, translation elongation factor 1-alpha and the internal transcribed spacer region of the nuclear rDNA, along with morphological characteristics, six species were characterised. Diaporthe eres, D. vaccinii and D. viticola are known species and three novel taxa are described here as D. asheicola, D. baccae and D. sterilis. This study is the first confirmed report of D. vaccinii in Latvia and the Netherlands.

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