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New Disease Reports - 2023 - Madrassi - Clonostachys Chloroleuca A Novel Pathogen Causing Cassava Root Rot Disease in
New Disease Reports - 2023 - Madrassi - Clonostachys Chloroleuca A Novel Pathogen Causing Cassava Root Rot Disease in
DOI: 10.1002/ndr2.12229
Correspondence:
L. M. Madrassi, Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Químicas y Naturales. Instituto de Biotecnología Misiones “Dra. María Ebe Reca”.
Laboratorio de Biotecnología Molecular. Ruta N◦ 12, km 7,5. Posadas, Misiones, Argentina.
Email: lmmadrassi@hotmail.com
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KEYWORDS
Manihot esculenta, severity, storage roots
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F I G U R E 2 Microscopic characteristic of Clonostachys chloroleuca isolate MEL2: (a) primary conidiophores; (b) secondary conidiophores; and (c)
conidia. Bar = 25 μm.
F I G U R E 3 Maximum Likelihood tree for combined sequences of the ITS and the tef 1-α regions for Clonostachys species. Accession number
CML 1941 represents the type strain of C. chloroleuca; blue line indicates isolate MEL2. Sequences from Stranjemonium ochroroseum were used as
outgroups (red lines). Only branches with bootstrap values >70 are shown.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to acknowledge the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas & Técnicas (CONICET) and the Secretaría General de Cien-
cia & Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Madrassi has a
doctoral fellowship from the CONICET, and Zapata and Alvarenga are
researchers from the CONICET.