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Cochliobolus
eleusines Alcorn [=Bipolaris eleusines Alcorn & Shivas]
Classification: Ascomycota, Locuoascomycetes, Dothideales, Pleosporaceae
Isolated from small brown lesion on the leaves of goosegrass
collected in Gumma Pref., the central part
of Japan. Isolated from leaves and panicles of goosegrass in foreign countries. Disperses by scattering conidia. Teleomorph has never been observed
in nature.
Characteristics: Plant pathogen
Morphology: Teleomorph: Produced by paired culture on artificial media. Producing cylindrical asci in black pseudothecia. Hyaline and filamentous ascospores of 115-270 x 6-9 um produced in coiled helix in asci. Anamorph: On olive brown conidiophores, producing conidia, straight or slightly curved, olive brown, cylindrical to fusiform, 55-170 x 15-26 um, with 6-14 pseudosepta. |
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Conidia |
Herbarium specimen in NIAES
Specimen No. | Scientific name | Host name | Host scientific name | Symptoms | Geographical origin | Collected date | Collector |
135-1-14 | Bipolaris eleusines | Goosegrass | Eleusine indica | Small brown spot | Fujimi, Gumma | 2000.11.13 | Tsukiboshi, T. |
(Described by Tsukiboshi, T., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2002)
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