Abstract
Botrytis spp. are efficient pathogens, causing devastating diseases and significant crop losses in a wide variety of plant species. Here we outline our review of these pathogens, as well as highlight the major advances of the past 10 years in studying Botrytis in interaction with its hosts. Progress in molecular genetics and the development of relevant phylogenetic markers in particular, has resulted in the characterisation of approximately 30 species. The host range of Botrytis spp. includes plant species that are members of 170 families of cultivated plants.
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We are grateful to Adeline Simon, Matthias Hahn, and Jan van Kan for critical reading of the manuscript and for unpublished data. We thank Dario Cantu, Robert Marschall, and Julia Schumacher for providing us with macroscopic and microscopic illustrations.
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Elad, Y., Vivier, M., Fillinger, S. (2016). Botrytis, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In: Fillinger, S., Elad, Y. (eds) Botrytis – the Fungus, the Pathogen and its Management in Agricultural Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23371-0_1
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