Cladosporium musae is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Cladosporium speckle on banana and which occurs in most countries in which the fruit is cultivated.[1] Unsuccessful attempts to transfer the Cladosporium pathogen in vitro to healthy banana plants seem to confirm reports that the infection remains latent in otherwise healthy plants.[2]
Cladosporium musae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Order: | Capnodiales |
Family: | Davidiellaceae |
Genus: | Cladosporium |
Species: | C. musae
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Binomial name | |
Cladosporium musae E.W.Mason (1945)
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References
edit- ^ Crous, P. W.; Schroers, H-J.; Groenewald, J. Z.; Braun, U.; Schubert, K. Metulocladosporiella gen. nov. for the causal organism of Cladosporium speckle disease of banana Archived 2013-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, Mycological Research 110 (2006) 264-275
- ^ Photita, W.; Lumyong, P.; Lumyong, S.; McKenzie, E. H. C.; Hyde, K. D. Are some endophytes of Musa acuminita latent pathogens? Fungal Diversity 16 (2004) 131-140