Macrophomina euphorbiicola: sporulation and taxonomic emendation
Dariane Monteiro Viana·Rui Sales Júnior·Allinny Luzia Alves Cavalcante·Moacir Franco de Oliveira·Sabrina Queiroz de Freitas·Cynthia Patrícia de Sousa Santos·Alexandre Reis Machado·Kamila Correia·Sami Jorge Michereff·Andréia Mitsa Paiva Negreiros
Abstract This study investigated whether the genus Luffa could act as a sporulation inducer for Macrophomina euphorbiicola , with the aim of providing a morphological description and proposing a taxonomic amendment for the species. In a greenhouse, Luffa cylindrica was inoculated with M. euphorbiicola to induce the formation of pycnidia and conidia. Previously, M. euphorbiicola had been described only using molecular methods. Eighty days after inoculation, symptoms of stem rot disease were obser