First Report of Colletotrichum truncatum Causing Anthracnose on Piper betle in China

Colletotrichum species causing anthracnose disease of chili in China

Anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum species is a serious disease of more than 30 plant genera. Several Colletotrichum species have been reported to infect chili in different countries. Although China is the largest chili-producing country, little is known about the species that have been infecting chili locally. Therefore, we collected samples of diseased chili from 29 provinces of China, from...

First Report of Colletotrichum fructicola as the causal agent of Anthracnose on Common Bean and Cowpea

Colletotrichum truncatum: an unusual pathogen causing mycotic keratitis and endophthalmitis.

In recent years, the well-known plant pathogens of the Colletotrichum genus were increasingly reported to cause ophthalmic infections in humans. Among 66 species in the Colletotrichum genus, only a few are known to be pathogenic for humans. We report here five cases of ophthalmic infections due to Colletotrichum truncatum, a species never reported earlier to cause human infection. The isolates ...

First Report of Anthracnose Caused by Colletotrichum fioriniae on Chinese Matrimony Vine in Korea

A fungus, Colletotrichum fioriniae, was isolated for the first time from fruits of Chinese matrimony vine (Lycium chinense Mill.) in Korea. It was classified as C. fioriniae based on the morphological characteristics and nucleotide sequence of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase and β-tubulin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of C. fioriniae causing anthracnose of Chi...

Pectinolytic enzyme production by Colletotrichum truncatum, causal agent of soybean anthracnose.

BACKGROUND Colletotrichum truncatum is the most common pathogenic fungus associated with soybean anthracnose, a prevalent disease in Argentina. Pectinolytic enzymes are involved in the pathogenicity of a wide range of plant pathogenic fungi. OBJECTIVES To explore pectinolytic enzyme production in Argentinian Colletotrichum strains isolated from diseased soybean plants from different geographi...