TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kruse, Julia Marlene
A1  - Kummer, Volker
A1  - Shivas, Roger G.
A1  - Thines, Marco
T1  - The first smut fungus, Thecaphoraanthemidis sp. nov. (Glomosporiaceae), described from Anthemis (Asteraceae)
T2  - MycoKeys
N2  - There are 63 known species of Thecaphora (Glomosporiaceae, Ustilaginomycotina), a third of which occur on Asteraceae. These smut fungi produce yellowish-brown to reddish-brown masses of spore balls in specific, mostly regenerative, plant organs. A species of Thecaphora was collected in the flower heads of Anthemis chia (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) on Rhodes Island, Greece, in 2015 and 2017, which represents the first smut record of a smut fungus on a host plant species in this tribe. Based on its distinctive morphology, host species and genetic divergence, this species is described as Thecaphora anthemidis sp. nov. Molecular barcodes of the ITS region are provided for this and several other species of Thecaphora. A phylogenetic and morphological comparison to closely related species showed that Th. anthemidis differed from other species of Thecaphora. Thecaphora anthemidis produced loose spore balls in the flower heads and peduncles of Anthemis chia unlike other flower-infecting species.
KW  - Glomosporiaceae
KW  - host specificity
KW  - internal transcribed spacer
KW  - molecular phylogenetics
KW  - smut fung
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47514
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-475141
SN  - 1314-4049
SN  - 1314-4057
N1  - Copyright Julia Kruse et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 41
SP  - 39
EP  - 50
PB  - Pensoft Publishers
CY  - Washington, DC [u. a.]
ER  -