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Cryphonectria cubensis on an indigenous host in Brazil: a possible origin for eucalyptus canker disease?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2004

CLAUDINE D.S. SEIXAS
Affiliation:
Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36571-000, Brazil. [email protected]; fax: (0105531) 3899-2240.
ROBERT W. BARRETO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36571-000, Brazil. [email protected]; fax: (0105531) 3899-2240.
ACELINO C. ALFENAS
Affiliation:
Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36571-000, Brazil. [email protected]; fax: (0105531) 3899-2240.
FRANCISCO A. FERREIRA
Affiliation:
Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36571-000, Brazil. [email protected]; fax: (0105531) 3899-2240.
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Abstract

Endothiella sp. was found associated with witches' broom symptoms of Tibouchina granulosa growing in a stretch of Atlantic rain forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The fungus was the anamorph of Cryphonectria cubensis the eucalypt canker fungus. Host-range studies were performed involving 40 plant species belonging to 19 families and showed that C. cubensis has a wide potential host-range, concentrated on the Myrtales but including Persea americana (avocado) and Pouteria caimito. These are members respectively of the subclasses Magnoliidae and Dilleniidae, distantly related to plants of the subclass to which both eucalypt and T. granulosa belong (Rosidae). The finding of C. cubensis in balance with a population of a native species at a site isolated and distant from both eucalypt and clove plantations might be regarded as reinforcing the hypothesis of a Neotropical origin for the fungus as opposed to the hypothesis of the fungus being from Oceania and having cloves as its original host. The new alternative hypothesis(of separate origins from endemic hosts in the Neotropics, Africa and Oceania) should nevertheless be also considered.

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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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