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Abstract

In September 2018, a leaf spot disease was noticed on a European fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) in Oeiras, Portugal. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize the causative agent of this disease symptom. Morphological characters and phylogenetic data derived from ITS and LSU sequences revealed that the leaf spot was caused by a flamentous fungus in the Mycosphaerellales, as a unique lineage within the Teratosphaeriaceae. This pathogen is introduced here as a new genus and species, Palmeiromyces chamaeropicola D.R.S. Pereira & A.J.L. Phillips, the cause of a newly reported leaf disease on Chamaerops humilis.

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Title
A new leaf spot disease of Chamaerops humilis caused by Palmeiromyces chamaeropicola gen. et sp. nov
Author
Pereira, Diogo R S 1 ; Phillips, Alan J L 1 

 Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal 
Pages
353-363
Section
New or Unusual Disease Reports
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
ISSN
00319465
e-ISSN
15932095
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2473388739
Copyright
© 2020. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.