Scytalidium lignicola Pesante
Authors/Creators
- 1. College of Life Sciences, Institute of Agro-bioengineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
- 2. China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- 3. College of Eco-Environmental Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
Description
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Scytalidium lignicolaPesante, Ann. Sperim. Agrar. 11 (suppl.): 265 (1957)Description and illustration.
Pesante (1957)
Notes.
Scytalidium lignicola is phylogenetically closely related to S. auriculariicola and S. philadelphianum (Figs 1, 2). The distinctions between S. lignicola and S. auriculariicola are provided in the notes for S. auriculariicola. Morphologically, S. lignicola differs from S. philadelphianum by not producing conidia and by having chlamydospore-like cells swollen up to 7 µm wide (Pesante 1957; Crous et al. 2022). Furthermore, based on a pairwise comparison of ITS, S. lignicola (ex-type UAMH 1502) differs from S. philadelphianum (ex-type CPC 40793) in 5.8 % (34 / 580 bp, 14 gaps) in the ITS. Scytalidium lignicola acts as a saprotrophic opportunist in wood, soil, and compost but can shift to a pathogenic mode of life, causing infections in humans (Dickinson et al. 1983; De Gannes et al. 2013). Notably, as a soil-borne pathogen, Scytalidium lignicola often causes cassava black root rot, which is difficult to control and results in significant losses in cassava production (Silva et al. 2013).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pesante
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Order
- Helotiales
- Family
- Hyaloscyphaceae
- Genus
- Scytalidium
- Species
- lignicola
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Pesante A (1957) Osservazioni su una carie del platana. Annali della Sperimentazione Agraria. 11 (suppl.): 249–266.
- Crous PW, Begoude BAD (2022) New and Interesting Fungi. 5. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 10: 19–90. https://doi.org/10.3114/fuse.2022.10.02
- Dickinson GM, Cleary TJ (1983) First case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Scytalidium lignicola in a Human. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 17 (1): 155–158. https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.17.1.155-158.1983
- Gannes De V, Eudoxie G, Hickey WJ (2013) Insights into fungal communities in composts revealed by 454 - pyrosequencing: implications for human health and safety. Frontiers in Microbiology 4: 164. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00164
- Silva CAD, de Medeiros EV (2013) Interferência da incorporação de matéria orgânica no solo no controle da podridão negra da mandioca, causada por Scytalidium lignicola. Bioscience Journal 29 (6): 1–9.