ARTICLE 67 logy, logy, et al. (Damm et Key words: actin !+ phylogeny DNA Santalum systematics Togninia et al. 2006), as well was established by Crous et al. 2000, Groenewald T. griseo-olivacea and T. (Réblová & Mostert 2007). Several species with Phaeoacremonium IMA FUNGUS · VOLUME 5 · NO 1: 67–77 NO 1: 5 · · VOLUME FUNGUS IMA 2 et al. 2009, Gramaje et al. 2009, 2012, isolates. have also been associated with disease T. africana T. et al. 2005, 2006, Damm et al. 2008, Essakhi et al. 2014), including three species originally . 2005). However, numerous species of et al. 2005). However, species were found, namely P. species were found, et al. 1996, Dupont The genus Phaeoacremonium represents a new record for Australia. represents a new record for , and Josep Armengol , and Josep of the heartwood rot in Tropical sandalwood and the impact sandalwood Tropical of the heartwood rot in rot fungi were on oil levels within the heartwood. Several fungi were entering isolated and sections suggested that the the branches and main stem via wounds made during pruning The immediate response to or when branches are damaged. trial examining the this knowledge was to establish a pruning tree age and timing (season) of pruning on infection of effect The pruned trees were destructively harvested development. and canker, after 6 and 12 mo, and over 70 endophytes, were several Among these fungi rot fungi recovered. Phaeoacremonium et al. (1996), and 40 species have been described so far (Crous 2001, Mostert et al. 2008, Graham Úrbez-Torres described as Togninia T. vibratilis al. 2008), and T. species of this genus have been studied intensively because of the involvement of these taxa in two complex fungal diseases of grapevine, namely Petri disease in young vines and esca disease in adult vines (Mostert as with human infections, so-called phaeohyphomycoses (Mostert Phaeoacremonium asexual morphs: 3 Phaeoacremonium , Treena Burgess , Treena 2 sp. nov. which can be separated from other species producing which can sp. nov. Phaeoacremonium venezuelense ) is one of the world’s ) is one of the world’s . et al. 2010). and in the early 1990s, isolates collected from pruning wounds of tropical sandalwood in Western Western pruning wounds of tropical sandalwood in isolates collected from , Ana Pérez-Sierra 2 Phaeoacremonium
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