Abstract
An ascomycete morphologically similar to the genus Xylaria Hill ex Schrank (Xylariaceae, Ascomycota) associated with the infected roots and crop debris of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and corn roots collected from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Morpho-anatomical, cultural, and molecular work revealed it to be a new species. Illustrated morphological description, phylogenetic analysis and comparison with similar species, are also presented.
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The specimen was deposited in the KASH herbarium under accession number 3169-KASH, and nrITS, LSU and RPB2 sequence data was saved as FASTAQ file and deposited in GeneBank, National Centre for Biotechnology and Information (NCBI) under accession numbers number ITS: OQ299509; LSU: OR129840 and RPB2 OR102444 and OR102445. Myco Bank number: MB 838454 Index Fungorum number: IF559492 Faceoff fungi number: FoF10698.
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The authors are thankful to KASH herbarium for holotype deposition; NCBI and UNITE database for providing ITS, LSU and RPB2 sequences; myco bank for suggesting species name and National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, for Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) facility. The first author is also thankful to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi for providing financial support in the form of Senior Research Fellowship (Grant No. 09/251(0114)/2018-EMR-I).
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Malik, W.S., Wani, A.H., Jan, N. et al. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Xylaria bifida a new species from French bean and corn fields of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Indian Phytopathology 77, 501–509 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-024-00747-9
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