Phaeoacremonium aleophilum

Phaeoacremonium aleophilum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Pezizomycotina
Class: Sordariomycetes
Subclass: Sordariomycetidae
Order: Diaporthales
Family: Togniniaceae
Genus: Phaeoacremonium
Species: P. aleophilum
Binomial name
Phaeoacremonium aleophilum
W. Gams, Crous, M.J. Wingf. & Mugnai (1996)[1]

Phaeoacremonium aleophilum is a fungus species in the genus Phaeoacremonium. It is associated with Phaeomoniella chlamydospora in esca in mature grapevines and decline in young vines (Petri disease), two types of grapevine trunk disease.[2]

Togninia minima is the teleomorph (the sexual reproductive stage) of P. aleophilum.[3]

References

  1. W. Gams, Crous, M.J. Wingf. & Mugnai, Mycologia 88: 791 (1996)
  2. Real-Time PCR Detection of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora and Phaeoacremonium aleophilum. Maria Teresa Martín, Rebeca Cobos, Laura Martín and Lorena López-Enríquez, Appl Environ Microbiol., Jun 2012, volume 78, issue 11, pages 3985–3991, doi:10.1128/AEM.07360-11, PMC 3346403
  3. Togninia (Calosphaeriales) is confirmed as teleomorph of Phaeoacremonium by means of morphology, sexual compatibility and DNA phylogeny. Mostert L, Crous PW, Ewald Groenewald JZ, Gams W and Summerbell RC, Mycologia, Jul-Aug 2003, volume 95, issue 4, pages 646-659, PubMed

External links