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Alternaria
solani (Ellis & Martin) Sorauer
Classification: Deuteromycotina, Hyphomycetes
Distributed widely in Japan. Causes early blight of Solanaceae plants such as potato, tomato and eggplant. Disperses by scattering conidia. Teleomorph unknown.
Characteristics: Plant pathogen
Morphology: Teleomorph: Unknown Anamorph: On conidiophores pale brown to olive brown, producing solitary conidia pale brown to pale golden brown, obclavate to oblong, with a beak longer than the body, surface smooth,150-300 x 15-19 um in size, with several vertical and 9-11 transverse septa. Beak flexuous, pale, sometimes branched, 2.5-5 um thick and tapered to the end. |
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Conidia |
Herbarium specimen in NIAES
Specimen No. | Scientific name | Host name | Host scientific name | Symptoms | Geographical origin | Collected date | Collector |
104-1-79 | Alternaria solani | potato | Solanum tuberosum | early blight | Harashima, Fukuoka | 1930.6.14 | Kwamura, E. |
114-1-72 | " | tomato | Lycopersicon esculentum | " | Syakujii, Tokyo | 1932.7.30 | |
244-1-102 | " | potato | Solanum tuberosum | " | Hramachi, Fukushima | 1938.6 | Kwamura, E. |
244-1-46 | " | " | " | " |
(Described by Tsukiboshi, T., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2003)
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