Didymella rabiei

Didymella rabiei
Didymella rabiei growing on chickpea
Didymella rabiei growing on chickpea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Didymellaceae
Genus: Didymella
Species:
D. rabiei
Binomial name
Didymella rabiei
(Kovatsch.) Arx, (1962)
Synonyms
chickpea ascochyta blight
Bitunicate ascus and ascospores of Didymella rabiei
Common nameschickpea ascochyta, ascochyta blight, blight of chickpea
Causal agentsDidymella rabiei
Hostschickpea
EPPO CodeMYCORA
Distributionworldwide in chickpea growing regions
Genomic information
NCBI genome IDJYNV00000000
Ploidyaneuploid[1]
Genome size34.65[2]
Number of chromosomes12-16[1]
Year of completion2016[2]

Didymella rabiei, commonly called chickpea ascochyta blight fungus, is a fungal plant pathogen of chickpea. Didymella rabiei is the teleomorph of Ascochyta rabiei, which is the anamorph, but both names refer to the same species.[3]

  1. ^ a b Akamatsu, Hajime O.; Chilvers, Martin I.; Kaiser, Walter J.; Peever, Tobin L. (November 2012). "Karyotype polymorphism and chromosomal rearrangement in populations of the phytopathogenic fungus, Ascochyta rabiei". Fungal Biology. 116 (11): 1119–1133. Bibcode:2012FunB..116.1119A. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2012.07.001. ISSN 1878-6146. OCLC 5902581684. PMID 23153803.
  2. ^ a b Verma, Sandhya; Gazara, Rajesh Kumar; Nizam, Shadab; Parween, Sabiha; Chattopadhyay, Debasis; Verma, Praveen Kumar (19 April 2016). "Draft genome sequencing and secretome analysis of fungal phytopathogen Ascochyta rabiei provides insight into the necrotrophic effector repertoire". Scientific Reports. 6 (24638): 24638. Bibcode:2016NatSR...624638V. doi:10.1038/srep24638. OCLC 6029350225. PMC 4835772. PMID 27091329.
  3. ^ Trapero-Casas, Antonio; Kaiser, Walter J. (November 1992). "Development of Didymella rabiei, the Teleomorph of Ascochyta rabiei, on Chickpea Straw" (PDF). Phytopathology. 82 (11): 1261–1266. doi:10.1094/Phyto-82-1261. ISSN 0031-949X. OCLC 193649327. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.