''Dothiorella santali'' is an
endophytic
An endophyte is an endosymbiont, often a bacterium or fungus, that lives within a plant for at least part of its life cycle without causing apparent disease. Endophytes are ubiquitous and have been found in all species of plants studied to date; h ...
fungus that might be a
canker
A plant canker is a small area of dead tissue, which grows slowly, often over years. Some cankers are of only minor consequence, but others are ultimately lethal and therefore can have major economic implications for agriculture and horticultur ...
pathogen, specifically for ''
Eucalyptus gomphocephala
''Eucalyptus gomphocephala'', known as tuart, is a species of tree, one of the six forest giants of Southwest Australia. Tuart forest was common on the Swan coastal plain, until the valuable trees were felled for export and displaced by the urb ...
''. It was isolated from said trees in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
References
Further reading
*Pavlic-Zupanc, D., et al. "Molecular and morphological characterization of Dothiorella species associated with dieback of Ostrya carpinifolia in Slovenia and Italy, and a host and geographic range extension for D. parva."
*Urbez-Torres, Jose Ramon, et al. "Characterization of fungal pathogens associated with grapevine trunk diseases in Arkansas and Missouri." Fungal diversity 52.1 (2012): 169–189.
*Pitt, Wayne M., José Ramón Úrbez-Torres, and Florent P. Trouillas. "Dothiorella and Spencermartinsia, new species and records from grapevines in Australia." Australasian Plant Pathology 44.1 (2015): 43–56.
External links
MycoBank*
santali
Fungi described in 2009
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