Anther smuts of Caryophyllaceae: Molecular analyses reveal further new species

New records of Microbotryum species parasitizing Caryophyllaceae from Ukraine

“…However, Vánky (2004) supposed that this species can be divided into smaller ones through the use of analyses of as many of type specimens as possible with employment of both traditional morphological and molecular-phylogenetic methods. Such studies have been made by Lutz et al (2005Lutz et al ( , 2008, and their results confirmed the separation of M. dianthorum. However, within this species a great variability in the spore dimensions was found.…”

“…Thus, in the new check-list of smut fungi (Vánky 2005a) 14 additional species were included. Currently, there are 38 species which were described or collected after 1994 in Europe (Almaraz, Telleria 1998;Bauer et al 2008;Denchev 2007;Denchev, Giraud and Hood 2009;Lutz et al 2005Lutz et al , 2008Lutz, Vánky 2009;Piątek 2006;Prillinger et al 2009;Vánky 1998Vánky , 2003Vánky , 2005aVánky ,b, 2007Vánky , 2008aVánky ,b, 2009Vánky and Berner 2003;Vánky, Horita and Jage 2005a;Vánky, Jage and Scholz 2005b;Vánky et al 2008;Vánky, Lutz 2007;Vánky, Scholz 2001 (Denchev 2007;Denchev et al 2009;Lutz et al 2005Vánky, Berner 2003). Microbotryum jehudanum (Zundel) Vánky was found for the first time in the territory of Europe .…”

A molecular phylogenetic framework for Anthracocystis (Ustilaginales), including five new combinations (inter alia for the asexual Pseudozyma flocculosa), and description of Anthracocystis grodzinskae sp. nov.

“…For further resolution of relationships between Anthracocystis species, other genes should be analysed, but for routine species identification and generic placement, the current concatenated ITS+LSU dataset suits well. Thus, similar to resolved backbone trees for different phytopathogenic fungi (e.g., Begerow et al 2002;Hendrichs et al 2005;Lutz et al 2005Lutz et al , 2008Maharachchikumbura et al 2012;Piątek et al 2013;Hyde et al 2014;Savchenko et al 2014;Ariyawansa et al 2015;McTaggart et al 2015), the concatenated dataset (alignment deposited in TreeBASE S17942) is intended to serve as a phylogenetic backbone for the genus Anthracocystis for future molecular studies. In addition to currently accepted Anthracocystis species, this study determined that another species, Sporisorium andrewmitchellii , was nested within Anthracocystis.…”

Phylogeny and morphology of Anthracoidea pamiroalaica sp. nov. infecting the endemic sedge Carex koshewnikowii in the Pamir Alai Mts (Tajikistan)

“…in Europe and East Asia (Vánky 2012;Denchev et al 2013). However, recent molecular studies revealed that many morphologically defined polyphagous smuts and false smuts in fact represent complexes of host-specific independent cryptic or pseudocryptic species (Vánky and Lutz 2007;Bauer et al 2008;Lutz et al 2005Lutz et al , 2008Piątek et al 2011Piątek et al , 2012Piątek et al , 2013aSavchenko et al 2014a, b;Vasighzadeh et al 2014) and, therefore, Anthracoidea found on Carex koshewnikowii could be a species different than Anthracoidea sempervirentis. Thus, this study aims to resolve the systematic placement of Anthracoidea on Carex koshewnikowii using light and scanning electron microscopy and phylogenetic analyses using LSU rDNA sequences.…”