Publications by authors named "R F Castaneda-Ruiz"
Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: , from accumulated snow sediment sample. , on leaf spots of . , on submerged decaying wood in sea water, on , as endophyte from healthy leaves of .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlants play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance of the biosphere, but often suffer from pathogenic fungi during growth. During our continuing mycological surveys of plant pathogens from terrestrial plants in Jiangxi and Yunnan provinces, China, 24 strains of isolated from diseased and healthy tissues of plant leaves represented eight new species, viz. , , , , , , and .
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- Research focuses on insect pathogenic fungi as eco-friendly alternatives to chemical insecticides, particularly in Cuba and Florida, where strains have been isolated from pests affecting coffee and sugar cane.* -
- A newly developed PCR method using ribosomal intergenic spacer (rIGS) sequences proves effective in distinguishing species within a complex, and it is enhanced with additional genetic markers.* -
- The findings characterize new fungal isolates associated with the coffee berry borer and propose these as a new taxon, demonstrating the utility of the rIGS-based PCR method for identifying new species in this context.*
Multi-locus phylogenetic analyses reveal eight novel species of from southern China.
Microbiol Spectr
December 2023
as a single genus in was introduced by morphological and phylogenetic analyses. Members of this genus occur mainly as asexual morphs, forming effuse, hairy colonies on decaying wood, plant stems, bamboo culms, and fallen leaves and shafts in terrestrial and freshwater habitats. In the present study, saprobic hyphomycetes from plant debris were investigated, and eight new species were introduced based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses of LSU, ITS, , and sequence data.
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