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Fulvia fulva

Fulvia fulva (Cooke) Cif., Atti Ist. bot. Univ. Lab. crittog. Pavia, sér. 5 10(1): 246 (1954).

           = Cladosporium fulvum Cooke, Grevillea 12(no. 61): 32 (1883).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 297520; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11152, Fig. 1

Description: see Ellis (1971); Videira et al. (2017).

Material considered: see Ellis (1971); Videira et al. (2017).

Fig. 1 Fulvia fulva (re-drawn from Babadoost 2011). a, b Conidiophores and conidia.

Importance and distribution

Fulvia comprises only one species that causes leaf mould of Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae), an emerging disease in tomato and has a worldwide distribution (de Cara et al. 2008).

 

References

Babadoost M. 2011 – Leaf mold (fulvia fulva), a serious threat to high tunnel tomato production in Illinois. Acta Horticulturae 914, 93–96.

de Cara M, Heras F, Santos M, Marquina J. 2008 – First Report of Fulvia fulva, Causal Agent of Tomato Leaf Mold, in Greenhouses in Southeastern Spain. Plant disease 92, 1371.

Ellis MB. 1971 – Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, UK.

Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Nakashima C, Braun U, Barreto RW, de Wit PJGM, Crous PW. 2017 –   Mycosphaerellaceae - Chaos or clarity? Studies in Mycology 87, 257–421.

 

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