IMA Fungus 1(2): 161-165, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2010.01.02.08
Colletotrichum: species, ecology and interactions
expand article infoUlrike Damm‡, Riccardo Baroncelli§, Lei Cai|, Yasuyuki Kubo, Richard O’Connell#, Bevan Weir¤, Kae Yoshino«, Paul F. Cannon»
‡ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht§ University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, School of Life Sciences, Warwick| Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 10, Key Laboratory of Systematic Mycology & Lichenology, Beijing¶ Kyoto Prefectural University, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto, Japan# Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Köln, Germany¤ Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand« Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto, Japan» CABI Europe-UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey
© Ulrike Damm, Riccardo Baroncelli, Lei Cai, Yasuyuki Kubo, Richard O’Connell, Bevan Weir, Kae Yoshino, Paul Cannon.
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Citation: Damm U, Baroncelli R, Cai L, Kubo Y, O’Connell R, Weir B, Yoshino K, Cannon PF (2010) Colletotrichum: species, ecology and interactions. IMA Fungus 1(2): 161-165. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2010.01.02.08
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Abstract
The presentations of the Special Interest Group meeting Colletotrichum: species, ecology and interactions, held on 1 August 2010 during IMC9 in Edinburgh, UK, are outlined. Seven research projects, ranged from systematics and population genetics to host-pathogen interactions and genome projects were presented. The meeting revealed that currently major species complexes in the genus Colletotrichum are being revised and the identities of many pathogens clarified on the basis of molecular phylogenies, and that the genomes of four species are sequenced and decoded providing an enormous amount of data that are used to increase our understanding of the biology of Colletotrichum species.
Keywords
genome sequencing, host-pathogen interaction, identification, pathogenicity, population genetics, systematics