Rhizoctonia

TaxID: 1322061

Basic Information

Rhizoctonia

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Rhizoctonia is a genus of fungi in the family Ceratobasidiaceae. Species form thin, effused, corticioid basidiocarps (fruit bodies), but are most frequently found in their sterile, anamorph state. Rhizoctonia species are saprotrophic, but some are also facultative plant pathogens, causing commercially important crop diseases. Some are also endomycorrhizal associates of orchids. The genus name was formerly used to accommodate many superficially similar, but unrelated fungi. As of 2025, the synonymisation of several genera under a unified Rhizoctonia was formalised, and the genus now includes names formerly circumscribed under Moniliopsis, Ceratobasidium, Thanatephorus, Uthatobasidium, Koleroga, Cejpomyces, Oncobasidium, Ypsilonidium, Ceratorhiza, and Tofispora. As currently circumscribed, the genus contains 52 accepted species.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Basidiomycota

Agaricomycetes

Cantharellales

Ceratobasidiaceae

Rhizoctonia

unclassified

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Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Sao Tome and Principe Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

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Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR38967833 - - - 18294772 China: Changsha
SRR38967832 - - - 18329248 China: Changsha
SRR38967831 - - - 17046440 China: Changsha

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