Scientific Name: Lasiodiplodia iraniensis

Describer: Abdollahzadeh, Zare & A.J.L. Phillips

Common Name: nan

Title: Lasiodiplodia iraniensis: new host and distribution

Summary:

Significance: Lasiodiplodia iraniensis causes disease, including cankers, dieback, and gummosis, in economically important plants, such as Citrus spp., Mangifera indica (mango) (Al-Sadi et al., 2013), Juglans sp., Eucalyptus sp. (Abdollahzadeh et al., 2010), as well as Salvadora persica (Marques et al., 2013), and Bougainvillea spectabilis (Li et al., 2015). It has been reported from Brazil (Marques et al., 2013), Iran (Abdollahzadeh et al., 2010), Oman (Al-Sadi et al., 2013), China (Li et al., 2015), and Australia (Sakalidis et al., 2011).

Issues of Concern: In a recent publication, Lasiodiplodia iraniensis was shown to be highly pathogenic on Anacardium occidentale (cashew) trees in Brazil (Netto et al., 2016). This is the first report of A. occidentale as a host of L. iraniensis. Two other recent publications report L. iraniensis from Peru, where it was isolated from mango (Rodríguez-Gálvez et al., 2016) and from South Africa, where it was isolated from Sclerocarya birrea (marula) trees (Mehl et al., 2016). These are the first reports of L. iraniensis in Peru and South Africa.

References:

Abdollahzadeh, J., Javadi, A., Goltapeh, E. M., Zare, R., and A. J. L. Phillips. 2010. Phylogeny and morphology of four new species of Lasiodiplodia from Iran. Persoonia-Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 25(1): 1-10.

Al-Sadi, A. M., Al-Wehaibi, A. N., Al-Shariqi, R. M., Al-Hammadi, M. S., Al-Hosni, I. A., Al-Mahmooli, I. H., and A. G. Al-Ghaithi. 2013. Population genetic analysis reveals diversity in Lasiodiplodia species infecting date palm, Citrus, and mango in Oman and the UAE. Plant Disease 97(10): 1363-1369.

Li, G., Arnold, R. J., Liu, F., Li, J., and S. Chen. 2015. Identification and pathogenicity of Lasiodiplodia species from Eucalyptus urophylla× grandis, Polyscias balfouriana and Bougainvillea spectabilis in Southern China. Journal of Phytopathology 163(11-12): 956-967.

Marques, M. W., Lima, N. B., de Morais, M. A., Barbosa, M. A., Souza, B. O., Michereff, S. J., Phillips, A. J., and M. P. Câmara. 2013. Species of Lasiodiplodia associated with mango in Brazil. Fungal Diversity 61(1):181-193.

Mehl, J. W. M., B. Slippers, J. Roux, and M. J. Wingfield. 2016. Overlap of latent pathogens in the Botryosphaeriaceae on a native and agricultural host. Fungal Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2016.07.015.

Netto, M. S. B., W. G. Lima, K. C. Correia, C. F. B. da Silva, M. Thon, R. B. Martins, R.N.G. Miller, S. J. Michereff, and M.P.S. Câmara. 2016. Analysis of phylogeny, distribution, and pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae species associated with gummosis of Anacardium in Brazil, with a new species of Lasiodiplodia. Fungal Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2016.07.006.

Rodríguez-Gálvez, E., P. Guerrero, C. Barradas, P. W. Crous, and A. Alves. 2016. Phylogeny and pathogenicity of Lasiodiplodia species associated with dieback of mango in Peru. Fungal Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2016.06.004.

Sakalidis, M. L., Ray, J. D., Lanoiselet, V., Hardy, G. E. S., and T. I. Burgess. 2011. Pathogenic Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Mangifera indica in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. European Journal of Plant Pathology 130(3): 379-391.