WALAILAK JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Volume 15, No. 10, Month OCTOBER, Year 2018, Pages 739 - 752

Phylogenetic trees of aecial-stage rust fungus, puccinia paederiae (dietel) gorlenko causing gall on paederia linearis hook f.

Wuttiwat JITJAK, Niwat SANOAMUANG

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A rust fungus, Puccinia paederiae (Dietel) Gorlenko causing galls on the stem of the skunk vine (Paederia linearis Hook. f. var. linealis and P. linealis var. palida (Craib) Puff) was collected for phylogenetic study as no molecular data was exclusively available for this fungus. Three regions of ribosomal DNA sequences, small subunit (SSU), large subunit (LSU) and internal transcribed spacer region 1 (ITS1) were employed. The results of maximum parsimony and Bayesian methods suggested that among the trees with these sequences, this fungus was nested in Pucciniaceae clades and Puccinia species with supportive statistical values. This is the first report on the phylogenetic analysis using multiple genes of the rust, P. paederiae.

Keywords

Aecium, basidiomycetes, galling rust, pucciniomycetes, skunk vine

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