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Mycocentrospora acerina

Mycocentrospora acerina (R. Hartig) Deighton, Taxon 21(5-6): 716 (1972).

≡ Cercospora acerina R. Hartig, Untersuch. Forstbot. Inst. München 1: 59 (1880).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 318047; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11548, Fig. 1

Description: see Crous et al. (2019).

Material considered: see Crous et al. (2019).

Fig. 1 Mycocentrospora acerina (re-drawn from https://www.gbif.org/fr/occurrence/1929686985). a Leaf spots. b Conidiophores and conidia. c Conidia. Scale bars = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Quarantine significance

Mycocentrospora acerina causes post-harvest disease named "liquorice rot" in carrots (Louarn et al. 2012). Zhao et al. (2021) listed Mycocentrospora in the quarantine list for China.

 

There are 21 Mycocentrospora epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Anguillospora, Phaeomycocentrospora, Pseudocercospora and Pseudocercosporella. Mycocentrospora comprises 12 species known on wide range of plants such as Acer sp. (Sapindaceae), Anethum sp. (Apiaceae), Apium sp.             (Apiaceae), Aquilegia sp. (Ranunculaceae), Asclepias tuberosa (Apocynaceae), Campanula medium (Campanulaceae), Centaurea cyanus (Asteraceae), Coriandrum sp. (Apiaceae), Daucus sp. (Apiaceae), Impatiens parviflora (Balsaminaceae), Lactuca sp. (Asteraceae), Liquidambar styraciflua (Altingiaceae), Lobelia hybrida (Campanulaceae), Omphalodes linifolia (Boraginaceae), Paeonia lactiflora (Paeoniaceae), Pastinaca sp. (Apiaceae) and Penstemon barbatus (Plantaginaceae). Mycocentrospora has wide geographical distribution including Asia (China, Japan), Europe (Poland, United Kingdom), North America (West Indies), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), South America (Chile) and The United States (California, Illinois).

 

References

Crous PW, Schumacher RK, Akulov A, Thangavel R et al. 2019 – New and Interesting Fungi 2. FUSE 3, 57–134.

Deighton FC. 1971 – Studies on Cercospora and allied genera. III. Centrospora. Mycological Papers 124, 1–13.

Deighton FC. 1972 – Mycocentrospora, a new name for Centrospora Neerg. Taxon 21, 716–716.

Deighton FC. 1973 – Studies on Cercospora and allied genera. IV. Cercosporella Sacc., Pseudocercosporella gen. nov. Mycological Papers 133, 1–42.

Louarn S, Nawrocki A, Edelenbos M, Jensen DF, Jensen ON, Collinge DB, Jensen B. 2012 – The influence of the fungal pathogen Mycocentrospora acerina on the proteome and polyacetylenes and 6-methoxymellein in organic and conventionally cultivated carrots (Daucus carota) during post harvest storage. Journal of proteomics 75, 3, 962–77.

Zhao P, Crous PW, Hou LW, Duan WJ, Cai L, Ma ZY, Liu F. 2021 – Fungi of quarantine concern for China I: Dothideomycetes. Persoonia 47, 45–105.

 

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