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Citation for Study 22756

About Citation title: "New Fusarium species from the Kruger National Park, South Africa".
About Study name: "New Fusarium species from the Kruger National Park, South Africa".
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Citation

Sandoval-denis M.P., Swart W.J., & Crous P.W. 2018. New Fusarium species from the Kruger National Park, South Africa. MycoKeys, .

Authors

  • Sandoval-denis M.P.
  • Swart W.J.
  • Crous P.W.

Abstract

Three new Fusarium species, F. convolutans, F. fredkrugeri and F. transvaalense (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) are described from soils collected in a catena landscape on a research supersite in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. The new taxa, isolated from the rhizosphere of three African herbaceous plants, Kyphocarpa angustifolia, Melhania acuminata and Sida cordifolia, are described and illustrated by means of morphological and multilocus molecular analyses based on sequences from five DNA loci (CAL, EF-1 α, RPB1, RPB2 and TUB). According to phylogenetic inference based on Maximum-likelihood and Bayesian approaches, the newly discovered species are distributed in the Fusarium buharicum, F. fujikuroi and F. sambucinum species complexes.

Keywords

Natural park, phylogeny, fungi, multigene, morphology, diversity

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