Cochliobolus | |
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Symptoms of Cochliobolus miyabeanus, the causal agent of brown spot, on rice | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Order: | Pleosporales |
Family: | Pleosporaceae |
Genus: |
Cochliobolus Drechsler |
Type species | |
Cochliobolus heterostrophus (Drechsler) Drechslera
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The fungal genus Cochliobolus includes 19 species, [1] it includes some plant pathogenic species such as Cochliobolus heterostrophus. A lot of former Cochliobolus species were transferred to either Curvularia or Bipolaris genera. [1]
Cochliobolus heterostrophus is known from "southern corn blight" which affects corn and maize. [2]
Those fungi that need a partner to mate are referred to as heterothallic (self-sterile), and those fungi not needing a partner are referred to as homothallic (self-fertile). A study of DNA sequences of mating type loci from different heterothallic and homothallic species in the genus Cochliobolus suggests that homothallism can be derived from heterothallism by recombination. [3]
As accepted by Species Fungorum; [1]
Former species (all within Pleosporaceae family); [1]