Botryotinia
fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel [=Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr.]Classification: Ascomycotina, Discomycetes, Leotiales, Sclerotiniaceae
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Botryotinia
fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel [=Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr.]
Classification: Ascomycotina, Discomycetes, Leotiales,
Sclerotiniaceae
Distributed widely in Japan. Parasitizes wide range of plants and causing gray mold of fruits and flowers in addition to leaf spot, blight and etc. Also inhabits saprophytically on the leaf surface. Tolerance strains for the chemicals often appear. Disperses by scattering conidia. Overwinters as hyphae and sclerotia produced in the infected tissues.
Characteristics: Plant pathogen, Leaf inhabitant
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Morphology: Teleomorph: Anamorph: On short branches of tall macronematous conidiophores, producing conidia hyaline to pale brown, ellipsoid to oval, hilum minute, smooth, 6-18 x 4-11 um in size without septa. |
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Herbarium specimen in NIAES
| Specimen No. | Scientific name | Host name | Host scientific name | Symptoms | Geographical origin | Collected date | Collector |
| 118-1-89 | Botrytis cinerea | Grape | Vitis spp. | Gray mold | Komaba, Tokyo | 1906.12.1 | Shirai, K. |
| 258-2-13 | " | " | " | " | 1911.11 | ||
| 105-1-46 | " | Kidney bean | Phaseolus vulgaris | " | Okitsu, Shizuoka | 1917.6 | |
| 117-1-20 | " | Persimmon | Diospyros kaki | " | Fukuoka | 1929 | |
| 117-1-21 | " | " | Diospyros kaki | " | Hakozaki, Fukuoka | 1932.6.7 | Kawamura, E. |
| 117-1-22 | " | " | Diospyros kaki | " | Hakozaki, Fukuoka | 1938.6.19 | " |
| 116-1-76 | " | Geranium | Pelargonium zonale | " | Edogawa, Tokyo | 1964.9.7 | Tominaga, T. |
(Described by Tsukiboshi, T., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2002)
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