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Article

Phylogenetic Characterization of Botryosphaeria Strains Associated with Asphondylia Galls on Species of Lamiaceae

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Department of Plant Protection, University of Life Sciences, 20-068 Lublin, Poland
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Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences, 20-068 Lublin, Poland
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy
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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Olive, Citrus and Tree Fruit, 81100 Caserta, Italy
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Diversity 2020, 12(2), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/d12020041
Submission received: 20 December 2019 / Revised: 19 January 2020 / Accepted: 20 January 2020 / Published: 21 January 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fungal Diversity in the Mediterranean Area)

Abstract

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In the last decade, Botryosphaeria dothidea has been steadily reported as an associate of gall midges (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) in a variety of host plants and ecological settings. This cosmopolitan fungus is well-known for its ability to colonize many plant species, as both a pathogen and an endophyte. Thus, the shift from this general habit to a lifestyle involving a strict symbiotic relationship with an insect introduces expectancy for possible strain specialization which could reflect separated phylogenetic lineages. Considering the recent taxonomic revision concerning species of Botryosphaeria, we evaluated the phylogenetic relationships among strains recovered from Asphondylia galls collected on several species of Lamiaceae in Poland and in Italy, and all the currently accepted species in this genus. A number of strains previously characterized from gall samples from Australia and South Africa, whose genetic marker sequences are deposited in GenBank, were also included in the analysis. As a result, full identity as B. dothidea is confirmed for our isolates, while strains from the southern hemisphere grouped separately, indicating the existence of genetic variation related to the geographic origin in the association with gall midges.

1. Introduction

Although the nature of their symbiotic relationship has not been clearly ascertained, the occurrence of Botryosphaeria dothidea as an associate of many gall midge species (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) is steadily reported, regardless of host plants and ecological contexts. For a long time, the identity of the fungal symbiont has been controversial, by reason of inherent difficulties in the isolation procedure, and of several taxonomic reassessments. In fact, several other fungi, such as Cladosporium spp. and Alternaria spp., have been frequently reported as gall associates, basically in connection with their saprophytic aptitude, which occasionally makes them conceal the real symbiont during the isolation procedure [1,2,3,4]. On the other hand, nomenclatural inconsistency, which only recently has been resolved after the epitypification of B. dothidea [5], may account for some previous incorrect reports referring to Macrophoma, Diplodia, and Dothiorella [2,3,6,7]. Indeed, taxonomists recommend a careful interpretation of past literature concerning this fungus [8,9].
Like several species in the Botryosphaeriaceae, B. dothidea is well-known for its cosmopolitan distribution and ability to colonize a high number of plants, either as a pathogen or as an endophyte [8,9,10]. The involvement in cecidomyid-gall formation on a variety of plants confirms it as a very adaptive species. Although the shift from association with plants to a lifestyle characterized by a strict symbiotic relationship with an insect suggests possible strain specialization, which could reflect separated phylogenetic lineages, data resulting from previous studies did not provide evidence for this hypothesis [1,11]. However, in the last decade, the evolution in fungal taxonomy boosted by the application of DNA sequencing has provided a remarkable contribution in view of a better resolution of the Botryosphaeria species aggregate. Six species presenting a Fusicoccum anamorph, namely B. corticis, B. dothidea, B. fabicerciana, B. fusispora, B. ramosa, and B. scharifii, were recognized based on a detailed phylogenetic analysis; another species, B. agaves, is included in this group, although its anamorphic stage has never been described so far [8]. In addition to this basic set, several new species have been more recently identified, mostly based on isolations from tree plants in China (Table 1).
Species of Lamiaceae are widespread in the Mediterranean region, where they seem to represent a diversity hotspot for gall midges. In fact, two new species of the genus Asphondylia have been recently described from galls collected on host plants such as Coridothymus capitatus [12] and Clinopodium nepeta [4], and two more are in course of characterization from Micromeria graeca and Clinopodium vulgare (Viggiani, personal communication). However, their distribution appears to reach Central Europe, following the geographical spread of some hosts, as documented in the case of A. serpylli and A. hornigi, respectively associated with Thymus spp. and Origanum vulgare [3,13]. In the course of our investigations on a number of species of Lamiaceae, we had the opportunity to collect isolates from galls of Asphondylia spp. in two European countries with different climatic conditions. Despite a certain variation in biometric characteristics, sequence homology of internal transcribed spacers of ribosomal DNA (rDNA-ITS) confirmed B. dothidea as the fungal symbiont of gall midges in both contexts. However, the relative unreliability of data available in GenBank for this species, which is to be taken into account after the recent rearrangements within Botryosphaeria, prompted us to undertake a more accurate study of the phylogenetic relationships with the new taxa and other isolates from Asphondylia galls from other plant species/countries, in order to assess whether or not strains adapted to this particular symbiotic relationship are homogeneous in taxonomic terms.
Table 1. Botryosphaeria species with Fusicoccum anamorph described after 2013.
Table 1. Botryosphaeria species with Fusicoccum anamorph described after 2013.
SpeciesMain HostsCountryReference
B. auasmontanumAcaciaNamibia[14]
B. kawatsukaiMalus, PyrusChina[15]
B. minutispermatiadead woodChina[16]
B. pseudoramosaEucalyptus, MelastomaChina[17]
B. qinlingensisQuercusChina[18]
B. qingyuanensisEucalyptusChina[17]
B. rosaceaeAmygdalus, Malus, PyrusChina[19]
B. sinensiaJuglans, Malus, Morus, PopulusChina[20]
B. wangensisCedrusChina[17]

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Isolation and Morphological Observations

Isolations of fungal associates of gall midges were carried out on potato dextrose agar (PDA) amended with 85% lactic acid (1 mL·L−1) in 90 mm diameter Petri dishes. After removing the outer residues of the flower calyx, fragments from gall walls were cut and transferred onto the agar medium. Plates were incubated in darkness at 25 °C. Hyphal tips from the emerging fungal colonies of the botryosphaeriaceous morphotype were transferred to fresh PDA plates, for morphological observations and storage of pure cultures at 4 °C. Production of pycnidia was induced in cultures prepared in plates containing 2% water agar (WA), topped with sterilized pine needles, which were kept at room temperature under near-UV illumination [21]. Observations were carried out under a Motic BA 210 microscope (Xiamen, China), and images were taken through a 1 MP Motic camera and Scopelmage 9.0 software. Minimum, maximum, mean values, and the length/width (L/W) ratios of 50 conidia from each isolate were measured for a comparison with previously annotated reference sizes for Botryosphaeria species [8,17].

2.2. DNA Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis

Selected strains recovered from galls on several species of Lamiaceae collected in Italy and Poland (Table 2) were sampled from the surface of PDA cultures with a scalpel. The mycelial matter was transferred to 1.5 mL Eppendorf tubes, for DNA extraction. DNA isolation was performed by using a DNA easy plant and fungi isolation kit (EurX, Gdańsk, Poland), according to manufacturer’s protocol. DNA concentration was estimated on 1.5% agarose gel, compared with GeneRulerTM DNA Ladder Plus (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), and measured by using a NanoDrop 2000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). DNA samples were diluted to a concentration of 20 ng·µL−1 and stored at 20 °C. Amplification of loci currently considered in taxonomy of Botryosphaeria [8] was carried out, using primers ITS1 and ITS4 for the rDNA-ITS region [22], and primers EF1-728F and EF1-986R for the translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF1) region [23]. PCR reaction mixtures contained 20 ng of genomic DNA, 0.2 mM of dNTP, 0.2 mM of each primer, 1 × Taq buffer mM buffer (10 mM of Tris-HCl, 1.5 mM of MgCl2, and 50 mM of KCl), and 1 U of Taq polymerase, and were adjusted to a final volume of 25 µL with sterile distilled water. PCR was conducted in a Biometra T1 thermocycler (Analytik Jena, Jena, Germany). The following reaction profile was applied: 95 °C—5 min, 35 cycles (95 °C—45 s, 52 °C—45 s, and 72 °C—45 s), with final elongation at 72 °C—5 min. PCR products were separated in 1.5% agarose gels containing EtBr in TBE buffer, at 140 V, for 1 h.
After checking and determining the size of the resulting PCR products, we submitted samples to Genomed (Warsaw, Poland), for sequencing. The obtained nucleotide sequences were compared with reference strains of Botryosphaeria spp. from GenBank. All sequences were checked and manually edited by using CLC Main Workbench 8.1.2 software (QIAGEN, Aarhus, Denmark) where necessary. Besides our original sequences, additional sequences of Botryosphaeria isolates from Asphondylia galls were searched in GenBank for inclusion in the phylogenetic analysis, where a strain of the species Botryobambusa fusicoccum was used as outgroup (Table 3). The combined and single ITS and TEF1 sequences were aligned by using Muscle [24] and manually adjusted with AliView software [25], where necessary. The phylogenetic analysis was conformed to a recent protocol [26]. Congruence between the different datasets was tested by using the partition homogeneity test in PAUP software version 4.0b10 [27]. Gaps were treated as missing characters. Phylogenetic analyses of the concatenated and single-sequence data for maximum likelihood (ML) were performed by using RAxML software version 8.2.12 [28] with GTR+G model of nucleotide substitution and 1000 bootstrap replications. Concatenated sequences were also analyzed for maximum parsimony (MP) by using PAUP, under the heuristic search parameters with tree bisection reconnection branch swapping, 100 random sequence additions, maxtrees set up to 1000, and 1000 bootstrap. Posterior probabilities of the concatenated dataset were determined by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling in MrBayes version 3.0b4 [29]. MCMC chains were run for 4000,000 generations, sampling every 100, with a 25% burn-in discarded. Phylogenetic trees were drawn by using FigTree software [30]. Both the alignments and the trees of concatenated dataset were deposited in TreeBase (http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S25558).

3. Results

Cultures on PDA of Botryosphaeria isolates recovered from Asphondylia galls on Lamiaceae displayed a sparse to moderately dense aerial mycelium, with diverse colors, from white-cream to gray to olivaceous-black, darkening with age, occasionally with narrow or wider columns of mycelium (Figure 1A). Pycnidial conidiomata developed after 10–14 days on PDA, or 8–12 days on pine needles in WA (Figure 1B). These fruiting bodies released buff, and, respectively, black (Figure 1C) or cream masses of spores containing typical Fusicoccum conidia, one-celled or with one septum (Figure 1D). They were smooth, hyaline, mostly with granular content, fusiform or irregularly fusiform, wider in the middle to upper third, base-truncate or subtruncate with rounded apex, and quite variable in size (Table 4). Muriform conidia referable to the synanamorphic stage Dichomera were never observed, unlike what previously resulted in subcultures of strains from galls collected on T. vulgaris directly prepared from the isolation plates [3]. This failure was assumed to possibly derive from prolonged storage at 4 °C of the stock cultures of our strains. Likewise, no isolate produced ascomata throughout the observation period.
Because of the above unreliability of morphological characters, DNA sequence homology was fundamental for an accurate taxonomic identification. PCR products of approximately 560 bp for ITS region and 300 bp for TEF1 region were amplified and successfully sequenced in 14 isolates from Asphondylia galls considered in this study. All the nucleotide sequences obtained were deposited in GenBank (Table 2), and blasted against the ex-epitype strain of B. dothidea (CMW8000/CBS115476) [5]. Identity was 99.79% for all strains but one (MgBt1, 98.97%) for ITS sequences, while for TEF1 sequence identity was 100% except four isolates (Th/g2017, OvFs/g, OvdF3e, and again MgBt1) matching at 99.16%.
This identity was highlighted in the subsequent phylogenetic analysis considering reference strains of all the recognized Botryosphaeria spp. producing Fusicoccum conidia, along with previously identified strains of B. dothidea collected from Asphondylia galls, in other contexts, worldwide. Although several contributions have been published in recent years on the subject of gall midges and associated fungi, a search in GenBank showed that sequences of both ITS and TEF1 are only available for some isolates from Acacia spp., collected in Australia and South Africa, which were the subject of a previously mentioned study [1].
The trimmed and manually adjusted alignment of concatenated locus contained 58 strains (including the outgroup) and consisted of 490 and 255 bp for ITS and TEF1, respectively. The best scoring RAxML tree (Figure 2) had a final likelihood value of −1961.235515. The matrix had 172 distinct alignment patterns, with 5.74% of undetermined characters or gaps. The ML tree of ITS alone showed poor resolution compared to ML trees based on TEF1 and concatenated sequences (Figure S1). ML trees of TEF1 and ITS + TEF1 showed almost the same topology, except for B. qingyuanensis, which is included in the same clade of B. wangensis-B. sinensis-B. qinlingensis in the phylogram based on TEF1 alone (Figure S2). Parsimony analysis yielded 1000 equally parsimonious trees (tree length = 174 steps; consistency index = 0.902; retention index = 0.915; relative consistency index = 0.826; homoplasy index = 0.098). Of the 745 characters used, 76 were parsimony-informative, 65 were variable and parsimony-uninformative, and 604 were constant. The same clades were supported in MP and ML analyses, except for B. minutispermatia, which resulted in being less closely related to the Australian isolates in the MP tree (Figure S3).

4. Discussion

The wide morphological variation observed in our study is in line with recent findings that biometric data of Botryosphaeria species may overlap and are no longer relevant for the identification of B. dothidea [8,9,17]. Even Dichomera conidia are infrequently observed in this species [8,14,21], indicating that this character cannot be reliably taken into account for taxonomic purposes. Hence, reports from Asphondylia galls primarily referring to this anamorphic stage [1] should be considered with caution, because of the common co-occurrence of saprophytic Alternaria producing similar phaeodictyospores.
Therefore, nucleotide sequencing has become the primary identification method for B. dothidea through the assessment of homologies with the ex-epitype strain (CMW8000/CBS115476) [5], particularly considering the loci of ITS and TEF1. In fact, although ITS was shown to clearly distinguish B. dothidea from its closest relatives, the recent discovery of several cryptic species within the Botryosphaeriaceae makes it necessary to combine with TEF1 for a more reliable identification [8,31,32].
Phylogenetic analysis disclosed a clear identity with B. dothidea of our heterogeneous strain sample from Lamiaceae, regardless of their origin from two different climatic contexts. In fact, both Polish and Italian isolates grouped together with the type strains of this species. Conversely, Australian and South African strains formed two distinct groupings, which indicated a divergence from the most recent common ancestor. Particularly, the former was associated to type strains of the species B. minutispermatia in a more comprehensive clade, while the latter exhibited a slightly higher phylogenetic distance. Considering that both Australian and South African isolates were collected in association with gall midges on Acacia spp., this finding could be interpreted as being in agreement with a previous analysis of the bulk B. dothidea sequences deposited in GenBank, showing a population structure which is shaped by geographical distance rather than host-plant preference [9]. In fact, lower identity with B. dothidea strains in the GenBank database resulted for these isolates, particularly those from South Africa whose TEF1 sequence homology was not higher than 96.83%. The observed variation particularly concerning this genetic marker requires further assessments to establish if these clusters should be interpreted as separated lineages within B. dothidea, or if they may represent distinct species.
The case of B. auasmontanum, a species characterized from a single strain (CBS121769) collected in Namibia [14], deserves further consideration. In fact, besides the holotype, our analysis included two more isolates from Italy ascribed to this species [26], whose ITS and TEF1 sequences are available in GenBank. Unexpectedly, they did not cluster with the holotype in the phylogenetic tree (Figure 2). A BLAST search in GenBank with sequences by these two strains clearly shows their 100% identity with B. dothidea, while ITS and TEF1 sequence homology with CBS121769 is lower (95.21% and 90.28%, respectively). The phylogenetic separation of the holotype of B. auasmontanum is supported by two large gaps resulting from the sequence alignment (Figure 3), which means that the claimed evidence of possible synonymy between the two species [26] applies only to the two Italian isolates. Thus, their inclusion in phylogenetic studies as representatives of B. auasmontanum should be avoided, and their incorrect taxonomic identification should be taken into account. Figure 3 also describes the substantial similarity among all strains of B. dothidea, including Australian and South African isolates, and the closely related B. minutispermatia, which essentially differ for nucleotide substitutions at single definite positions.

5. Conclusions

Characterization of Botryosphaeria strains from different plant species and environmental contexts goes through the finding of novel species, with the expectation that additional undescribed taxa may be discovered in the future [17]. This concept involves strains associated with cecidomyids, inducing gall formation on a wide variety of plant species, which so far have been overlooked in assessments concerning taxonomy of such a highly adaptive and widespread fungus. Results of our investigation showed full identity with B. dothidea of isolates from galls collected from Lamiaceae, while a possible separation from this species should be verified for isolates previously recovered from Acacia in Australia and, particularly, South Africa. Indeed, a more adequate definition could be obtained by integrating these findings with data concerning cecidomyid-associated Botryosphaeria strains from other countries. Therefore, a more active cooperation among researchers currently working on this topic worldwide is to be encouraged, in order to shed further light on this unique biological association.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/2/41/s1. Figure S1: Maximum-likelihood tree of ITS sequence. Figure S2: Maximum-likelihood tree of EF sequence. Figure S3: One of the 1000 most parsimonious trees resulting from the analysis of concatenated ITS and TEF1 sequences.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, B.Z. and R.N.; methodology, A.B., B.Z., E.D.K., and S.O.; formal analysis, A.B. and S.O.; writing—original draft preparation, B.Z., R.N., and S.O.; writing—review and editing, B.Z., E.D.K., and R.N.; funding acquisition, E.D.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Acknowledgments

Authors thank Sarah Lucchesi (University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA) for revising the English style of this paper.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. (A) Variable morphology of isolates from Asphondylia galls collected in our study. (B,C) Production of pycnidia, respectively, on pine needles on WA (water agar) and on PDA (potato dextrose agar). (D) Fusicoccum conidia.
Figure 1. (A) Variable morphology of isolates from Asphondylia galls collected in our study. (B,C) Production of pycnidia, respectively, on pine needles on WA (water agar) and on PDA (potato dextrose agar). (D) Fusicoccum conidia.
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree based on maximum likelihood (ML) analyses of concatenated ITS and TEF1 sequences from strains considered in this study. Original isolates from Lamiaceae are in bold. Bootstrap support values ≥ 60% for ML and maximum parsimony (MP) are presented above branches as follows: ML/MP, bootstrap support values < 60% are marked with ‘-’. Branches in bold are supported by Bayesian analysis (posterior probability ≥ 90%). Botryobambusa fusicoccum MFLUCC 11-0143 was used as the outgroup reference.
Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree based on maximum likelihood (ML) analyses of concatenated ITS and TEF1 sequences from strains considered in this study. Original isolates from Lamiaceae are in bold. Bootstrap support values ≥ 60% for ML and maximum parsimony (MP) are presented above branches as follows: ML/MP, bootstrap support values < 60% are marked with ‘-’. Branches in bold are supported by Bayesian analysis (posterior probability ≥ 90%). Botryobambusa fusicoccum MFLUCC 11-0143 was used as the outgroup reference.
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Figure 3. Alignment of ITS and TEF1 sequences of strains of B. dothidea, B. minutispermatia, and B. auasmontanum. Gaps in the sequences of the holotype of the latter species (CBS121769) are evident, along with single nucleotide substitutions in TEF1 sequences of Australian and South African isolates, and the type strains of B. minutispermatia.
Figure 3. Alignment of ITS and TEF1 sequences of strains of B. dothidea, B. minutispermatia, and B. auasmontanum. Gaps in the sequences of the holotype of the latter species (CBS121769) are evident, along with single nucleotide substitutions in TEF1 sequences of Australian and South African isolates, and the type strains of B. minutispermatia.
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Table 2. Isolates of B. dothidea from Asphondylia galls collected on Lamiaceae used in this study.
Table 2. Isolates of B. dothidea from Asphondylia galls collected on Lamiaceae used in this study.
NumberHostLocationGenBank Accession
ITSTEF1
SG3Clinopodium nepetaSan Giorgio a Cremano, ItalyMN731265MN737437
AcE3C. nepetaAstroni Nature Reserve, ItalyMN731266MN737438
AcAs2C. nepetaAstroni Nature Reserve, ItalyMN731267MN737439
AcSe1C. nepetaSerino, ItalyMN731268MN737440
CLRi2Clinopodium vulgareRivello, ItalyMN731272MN737444
Mp26jMentha piperitaKonopnica, PolandMN731273MN737445
Mp30pM. piperitaKonopnica, PolandMN731274MN737446
MgBt1Micromeria graecaBoscotrecase, ItalyMN731269MN737441
MgPC6M. graecaPalma Campania, ItalyMN731270MN737442
MgPC7M. graecaPalma Campania, ItalyMN731271MN737443
OvdF3eOriganum vulgareFajsławice, PolandMN731275MN737447
OvFs/gO. vulgareFajsławice, PolandMN731276MN737448
Th/g2017Thymus vulgarisFajsławice, PolandMN731277MN737449
ThgI/10T. vulgarisFajsławice, PolandMN731278MN737450
ITS: internal transcribed spacer; TEF1: translation elongation factor 1-alpha.
Table 3. Reference strains used in the phylogenetic analysis.
Table 3. Reference strains used in the phylogenetic analysis.
SpeciesNumberGenBank Accession
ITSTEF1
Botryobambusa fusicoccumMFLUCC 11-0143JX646792JX646857
Botryosphaeria agavesMFLUCC 10-0051JX646790JX646855
MFLUCC 11-0125JX646791JX646856
Botryosphaeria auasmontanumCBS 121769KF766167EU101348
MFLUCC 15-0923MF398858MF398910
MFLUCC 17-1071MF398863MF398915
Botryosphaeria corticisCBS 119047DQ299245EU017539
ATCC 22927DQ299247EU673291
Botryosphaeria dothideaCBS 110302AY259092AY573218
CBS 115476AY236949AY236898
3161EF614924EF614940
3179EF614917EF614933
3241EF614920EF614937
3242EF614916EF614936
3247EF614923EF614941
3253EF614921EF614938
3261EF614926EF614943
3275EF614925EF614942
3278EF614919EF614934
3279EF614918EF614935
Botryosphaeria fabicercianaCMW 27094HQ332197HQ332213
CMW 27108HQ332200HQ332216
Botryosphaeria fusisporaMFLUCC 10-0098JX646789JX646854
MFLUCC 11-0507JX646788JX646853
Botryosphaeria kawatsukaiPGZH18MG637267MG637243
PGZH19MG637266MG637242
Botryosphaeria minutispermatiaGZCC 16-0013KX447675KX447678
GZCC 16-0014KX447676KX447679
Botryosphaeria pseudoramosaCERC 2001KX277989KX278094
CERC 3455KX277997KX278102
Botryosphaeria qinlingensisCFCC 52984MK434301MK425020
CFCC 52985MK434302MK425021
Botryosphaeria qingyuanensisCERC 2946KX278000KX278105
CERC 2947KX278001KX278106
Botryosphaeria ramosaCBS 122069EU144055EU144070
Botryosphaeria rosaceaeCFCC 82350KX197079KX197097
DZP BKX197076KX197096
Botryosphaeria scharifiiIRAN1529CJQ772020JQ772057
IRAN1543CJQ772019JQ772056
Botryosphaeria sinensiaBJFU DZP141005-06KT343254KU221233
BJFU DZP141111-10KT343256KU221234
Botryosphaeria wangensisCERC 2298KX278002KX278107
CERC 2300KX278004KX278109
Table 4. Morphological features of B. dothidea isolates from Lamiaceae examined in this study.
Table 4. Morphological features of B. dothidea isolates from Lamiaceae examined in this study.
Strain NumberConidial Dimensions (Length × Width, µm)
Range (50 Conidia)MeanLength/Width Ratio
SG3(14–)16.8–21.8 × (3.5–)4.2–5.618.9 × 4.93.2–5.2
AcAs215.9–21 × (3.9–)4.3-5.8(–6.6)18.7 × 5.22.6–4.7
AcE3(14.2–)16.4–21.6 × (3.4–)4.6–5.419.4 × 5.13.1–5.4
AcSe1(13.4–)15.3–21(–22.9) × 3.8–5.718.2 × 5.12.3–5.1
CLRi214.9–21.8 × (3.9–)4.3–5.8(–6.6)18.7 × 5.22.6–5.4
Mp26j(17.5–)18.5–29.7 × 3.7–7(–7.5)22.3 × 5.13.5–6.1
Mp30p(16.5–)19.0–28.7 × (3.2–)4.0–7.322.3 × 5.13.7–6.1
MgBt1(13–)16.8-21.2 × 4.6–5.5(–6.2)17.3 × 5.22.4–4.6
MgPC6(12.8–)15.3–21 × 3.8–5.715.6 × 4.92.1–5.5
MgPC7(13.4–)15.5–21(–22.9) × 3.3–5.718.9 × 4.42.3–6.0
OvdF3e(17–)18.5–25.9 × (3.0–)3.5–7.424.3 × 5.33.0–6.1
OvFs/g(17.5–)18.5–28.7 × (2.8–)3.7–7.423.5 × 5.13.5–6.0
Th/g2017(15.2–)16.5–25.7 × (2.7–)3.9–6.820.3 × 4.82.9–5.5
ThgI/10(16.0–)18.5–28.4 × (3.1–)3.5–7.022.0 × 5.13.4–6.0

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