title: Phytophthora bisheria sp. nov., a new species identified in isolates from the Rosaceous raspberry, rose and strawberry in three continents.
abstract: A homothallic semipapillate slow growing Phytophthora species associated with root rot of strawberries from greenhouse-grown plants in North Carolina, USA, root rot of roses in the Netherlands, and root rot of raspberry in Knoxfield, Australia, was identified. The main character of this organism is the production of paragynous antheridia with broad attachment to the oogonial wall. The morphology of the pathogen does not match that of any of the more than 85 described Phytophthora species. Phylogenetic analysis based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacer rDNA region (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of this taxon and those from other Phytophthora species from GenBank supports the conclusion that this organism is an unreported new species. In the phylogenetic tree with other reported Phytophthora species at the GenBank, the new species is more closely related to others in ITS clade 2 comprising semipapillate taxa including P. botryosa, P. citrophthora, P. colocasiae, P. meadii, P. citricola, P. inflata, P.tropicalis, P. capsici, Phytophthora sp. 'glovera' and P. multivesiculata. The most closely related species is P. multivesiculata isolated from Cymbidium orchid in the Netherlands. In this paper we describe the morphological characteristics and the phylogenetic relationships that support the description of this taxon as a new species Phytophthora bisheria sp. nov.
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-PHP-PSPI, National Identification Service (NIS), Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (MDL), Bldg. 580, BARC-E, Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA. Gloria.Abad@aphis.usda.gov
authors.forename: Z Gloria
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Abad
authors.forename: Jorge A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Abad
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Coffey
authors.forename: Peter V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Oudemans
authors.forename: Willem A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Man in 't Veld
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: de Gruyter
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cunnington
authors.forename: Frank J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Louws
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000235:genetics; D031985:Fragaria / Q000382:microbiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009426:Netherlands; D010802:Phylogeny; D010838:Phytophthora / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000382:microbiology; D027826:Rosa / Q000382:microbiology; D027824:Rosaceae / Q000382:microbiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000166:cytology; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer