{"title":"Biodiversity of Colletotrichum spp. on Several Wild and Cultivated Plants","authors":"","doi":"10.1134/s2079086423070071","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract</strong>—The genus <em>Colletotrichum</em> includes a number of plant pathogens of major importance, causing diseases in a broad variety of woody and herbaceous plants. Due to recent molecular analysis, <em>Colletotrichum</em> spp. have undergone many taxonomic changes, i.e., introduction of a significant number of new species and abolition of some old ones. The data on the species diversity, abundance and host specialization of species in this genus on the territory of Russia and neighboring countries are obviously far from being complete, do not correspond to the modern taxonomy of the genus and require substantial revision. In this work, the molecular genetic identification and pathogenicity assessment of 35 isolates, previously identified as <em>Colletotrichum</em> spp., from the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, and the Russian Far East were carried out. It has been found that 12 isolates obtained from wild plants and crops belong to the species <em>Colletotrichum coccodes</em>. The remaining isolates belong to destructivum (14 isolates) and dematium (9 isolates) species complexes. Among the members of the destructivum complex, it was possible to identify the species <em>C. destructivum</em> and <em>C. lini</em>. <em>C. dematium</em>, <em>C. lineola</em> and <em>Colletotrichum</em> cf. <em>spinaciae</em> were defined among the isolates of the dematium complex. Three isolates of <em>C. destructivum</em> from wild plants of Leningrad oblast and Kamchatka, to our knowledge, are the first findings of this species for Russia. According to the results of the pathogenicity assessment, three isolates assigned to the destructivum species complex may be of interest for the biocontrol of <em>Galinsoga parviflora</em>, and one isolate identified as <em>С. coccodes</em> may be potentially used for the control of <em>Ambrosia artemisiifolia</em>.</p>","PeriodicalId":9047,"journal":{"name":"Biology Bulletin Reviews","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biology Bulletin Reviews","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s2079086423070071","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract—The genus Colletotrichum includes a number of plant pathogens of major importance, causing diseases in a broad variety of woody and herbaceous plants. Due to recent molecular analysis, Colletotrichum spp. have undergone many taxonomic changes, i.e., introduction of a significant number of new species and abolition of some old ones. The data on the species diversity, abundance and host specialization of species in this genus on the territory of Russia and neighboring countries are obviously far from being complete, do not correspond to the modern taxonomy of the genus and require substantial revision. In this work, the molecular genetic identification and pathogenicity assessment of 35 isolates, previously identified as Colletotrichum spp., from the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, and the Russian Far East were carried out. It has been found that 12 isolates obtained from wild plants and crops belong to the species Colletotrichum coccodes. The remaining isolates belong to destructivum (14 isolates) and dematium (9 isolates) species complexes. Among the members of the destructivum complex, it was possible to identify the species C. destructivum and C. lini. C. dematium, C. lineola and Colletotrichum cf. spinaciae were defined among the isolates of the dematium complex. Three isolates of C. destructivum from wild plants of Leningrad oblast and Kamchatka, to our knowledge, are the first findings of this species for Russia. According to the results of the pathogenicity assessment, three isolates assigned to the destructivum species complex may be of interest for the biocontrol of Galinsoga parviflora, and one isolate identified as С. coccodes may be potentially used for the control of Ambrosia artemisiifolia.