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Diversity, distribution and host association of Botryosphaeriaceae species causing oak decline across different forest ecosystems in Algeria

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Botryosphaeriaceous fungi associated with holm (Q. ilex) and cork (Q. suber) oak trees exhibiting dieback symptoms and cankers in Algeria, were sampled in twelve regions with different ecological conditions. Based on phylogenetic analyses of ITS and tef1-α loci, 13 species were identified. Three species (Diplodia corticola, Dothiorella iberica and Botryosphaeria dothidea) were found to be common to both oak species, while Doth. sarmentorum, D. mutila, Neofusicoccum vitifusiforme, D. insularis, N. stellenboschiana, Doth. plurivora, D. seriata, D. rosacearum, N. parvum and N. terminaliae were found only on one of the hosts. All the Botryosphaeriaceae taxa inoculated on oak shoots produced brown vascular discolouration, and were shown to be pathogenic on both oak species. Diplodia corticola was the most widespread and frequent species showing the highest aggressiveness towards both hosts. Neofusicoccum stellenboschiana, D. insularis and Doth. plurivora are recorded for the first time on Q. suber and Q. ilex. In addition to altitude, the environmental factors temperature and drought appeared to be influential variables that could describe the occurrence and the geographic distribution of these fungal species.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by MŠMT ČR, Proj. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_017/0002334). Alan JL Phillips acknowledges the support from UIDB/04046/2020 and UIDP/04046/2020 Centre grants from FCT, Portugal (to BioISI). A. Alves acknowledges the financial support from FCT/MCTES to CESAM (UIDP/50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/2020), through national funds. The authors are grateful for the late Pr Sabaou Nasserdine for his passionate participation and input.

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  1. Laboratoire de Biologie des Systèmes Microbiens (LBSM), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Kouba, Algiers, Algeria

    Alla Eddine Mahamedi, Youssef Djellid, Mounia Arkam & Abdelghani Zitouni

  2. Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie et Sciences de la Terre, Université de Ghardaïa, Ghardaïa, Algeria

    Alla Eddine Mahamedi & Youssef Djellid

  3. Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal

    Alan J. L. Phillips

  4. Departamento de Biologia, CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Anabela Lopes & Artur Alves

  5. Faculty of Horticulture, Mendeleum - Institute of Genetics, Mendel University in Brno, Valticka 334, 69144, Lednice, Czech Republic

    Aleš Eichmeier & Akila Berraf-Tebbal

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Mahamedi, A.E., Phillips, A.J.L., Lopes, A. et al. Diversity, distribution and host association of Botryosphaeriaceae species causing oak decline across different forest ecosystems in Algeria. Eur J Plant Pathol 158, 745–765 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-020-02116-4

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