Verticillium

Verticillium
Verticillium theobromae culture
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Glomerellales
Family: Plectosphaerellaceae
Genus: Verticillium
Nees (1816)
Type species
Verticillium dahliae
Kleb. (1913)[1]
Species

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Verticillium is a genus of fungi in the division Ascomycota, and are an anamorphic form of the family Plectosphaerellaceae. The genus used to include diverse groups comprising saprobes and parasites of higher plants, insects, nematodes, mollusc eggs, and other fungi, thus the genus used to have a wide-ranging group of taxa characterised by simple but ill-defined characters. The genus, currently thought to contain 51 species,[2] may be broadly divided into three ecologically based groups - mycopathogens, entomopathogens,[3] and plant pathogens and related saprotrophs.[4] However, the genus has undergone recent revision into which most entomopathogenic and mycopathogenic isolates fall into a new group called Lecanicillium.

At least five species are known to cause a wilt disease in plants called verticillium wilt: V. dahliae, V. longisporum, V. albo-atrum, V. nubilum, and V. tricorpus.[4] A sixth species, V. theobromae, causes fruit or crown rot, a non-wiliting disease.

  1. ^ Verticillium in Index Fungorum
  2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 724. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ^ Gams, Walter; Zare, Rasoul (2001). "A revision of Verticillium sect. Prostrata. III. Generic classification" (PDF). Nova Hedwigia. 72 (3–4): 329–337. doi:10.1127/nova.hedwigia/72/2001/329. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ^ a b Barbara, Dez J.; Clewes, Emily (2003). "Plant pathogenic Verticillium species: how many of them are there?". Molecular Plant Pathology. 4 (4): 297–305. doi:10.1046/j.1364-3703.2003.00172.x. ISSN 1364-3703. PMID 20569390. Retrieved 13 October 2020.