Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution
This review considers current knowledge surrounding species boundaries of the Armillaria root-rot pathogens and their distribution. In addition, a phylogenetic tree using translation elongation factor subunit 1-alpha (<i>tef</i>-1α) from isolates across the globe are used to pre...
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| author | Martin P.A. Coetzee Brenda D. Wingfield Michael J. Wingfield |
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| description | This review considers current knowledge surrounding species boundaries of the Armillaria root-rot pathogens and their distribution. In addition, a phylogenetic tree using translation elongation factor subunit 1-alpha (<i>tef</i>-1α) from isolates across the globe are used to present a global phylogenetic framework for the genus. Defining species boundaries based on DNA sequence-inferred phylogenies has been a central focus of contemporary mycology. The results of such studies have in many cases resolved the biogeographic history of species, mechanisms involved in dispersal, the taxonomy of species and how certain phenotypic characteristics have evolved throughout lineage diversification. Such advances have also occurred in the case of <i>Armillaria</i> spp. that include important causal agents of tree root rots. This commenced with the first phylogeny for <i>Armillaria</i> that was based on IGS-1 (intergenic spacer region one) DNA sequence data, published in 1992. Since then phylogenies were produced using alternative loci, either as single gene phylogenies or based on concatenated data. Collectively these phylogenies revealed species clusters in <i>Armillaria</i> linked to their geographic distributions and importantly species complexes that warrant further research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ad43e6d13ac4d17bdbf6ad551ec2a3b2022-12-22T04:24:37ZengMDPI AGPathogens2076-08172018-10-01748310.3390/pathogens7040083pathogens7040083Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global DistributionMartin P.A. Coetzee0Brenda D. Wingfield1Michael J. Wingfield2Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology (BGM), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South AfricaDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology (BGM), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South AfricaDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology (BGM), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South AfricaThis review considers current knowledge surrounding species boundaries of the Armillaria root-rot pathogens and their distribution. In addition, a phylogenetic tree using translation elongation factor subunit 1-alpha (<i>tef</i>-1α) from isolates across the globe are used to present a global phylogenetic framework for the genus. Defining species boundaries based on DNA sequence-inferred phylogenies has been a central focus of contemporary mycology. The results of such studies have in many cases resolved the biogeographic history of species, mechanisms involved in dispersal, the taxonomy of species and how certain phenotypic characteristics have evolved throughout lineage diversification. Such advances have also occurred in the case of <i>Armillaria</i> spp. that include important causal agents of tree root rots. This commenced with the first phylogeny for <i>Armillaria</i> that was based on IGS-1 (intergenic spacer region one) DNA sequence data, published in 1992. Since then phylogenies were produced using alternative loci, either as single gene phylogenies or based on concatenated data. Collectively these phylogenies revealed species clusters in <i>Armillaria</i> linked to their geographic distributions and importantly species complexes that warrant further research.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/7/4/83Basidiomycotaphylogeneticsfungal tree pathogensfungal systematicsfungal biogeography |
| spellingShingle | Martin P.A. Coetzee Brenda D. Wingfield Michael J. Wingfield Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution Pathogens Basidiomycota phylogenetics fungal tree pathogens fungal systematics fungal biogeography |
| title | Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution |
| title_full | Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution |
| title_fullStr | Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution |
| title_short | Armillaria Root-Rot Pathogens: Species Boundaries and Global Distribution |
| title_sort | armillaria root rot pathogens species boundaries and global distribution |
| topic | Basidiomycota phylogenetics fungal tree pathogens fungal systematics fungal biogeography |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/7/4/83 |
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