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Pythium cederbergense sp. nov. and related taxa from Pythium clade G associated with the South African indigenous plant Aspalathus linearis (rooibos).
Mycologia - 1 Jan 2000
Bahramisharif Amirhossein, Lamprecht Sandra C, Spies Christoffel F J, Botha Wilhelm J, McLeod Adéle
Abstract excerpt
The genus Pythium consists of more than 120 species and is subdivided into 11 phylogenetic clades (A-K) based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region sequence data. Pythium clade G contains only seven known species, with most not being well described. Our study characterized 12 Pythium isolates from Aspalathus linearis (rooibos) that fit into clade G. Phylogenetic analyses of the ITS region and a combined...
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