Phyllosticta citricarpa

TaxID: 55181

Basic Information

Phyllosticta citricarpa

Citrus Black Spot, Citrus black spot

Citrus black spot is a fungal disease caused by Phyllosticta citricarpa(previously known as Guignardia citricarpa). This Ascomycete fungus affects citrus plants throughout subtropical climates, causing a reduction in both fruit quantity and quality. Symptoms include both fruit and leaf lesions, the latter being critical to inter-tree dispersal. Strict regulation and management is necessary to control this disease since there are currently not many citrus varieties that are resistant.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Ascomycota

Dothideomycetes

Botryosphaeriales

Phyllostictaceae

Phyllosticta

citricarpa

Undefined

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Atsushi Nakajima@BY
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(c) Cesar Calderon@BY-SA
Phyllosticta citricarpa
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(c) Atsushi Nakajima@BY

Morphological Features

Pycnidia are solitary or occasionally aggregated, globose, immersed, mid- to dark brown, 70–330 μm in diameter. Conidia are aseptate, hyaline, obovoid to elliptical, multiguttulate, 9.4–12.7 × 5.0–8.5 μm, with a colourless subulate appendage and a barely visible gelatinous sheath <1.5 μm thick. The sexual morph (teleomorph) produces erumpent, globose to pyriform ascomata, unilocular with a central ostiole; asci are eight-spored, bitunicate, clavate to broadly ellipsoid; ascospores are hyaline, aseptate, cylindrical, slightly curved, 12–16 × 4.5–6.5 μm, with polar mucoid appendages

Source: EPPO Global Database Life Stage: Pycnidium / Conidium / Ascoma / Ascus / Ascospore Source Type: Diagnostic reference
Citation:

EPPO (2024). Phyllosticta citricarpa datasheet. EPPO Global Database.

Host Plants (6 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Quarantine Status (62 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Austria Quarantine pests 2019
Belgium Unknow 2019
Bulgaria Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
Bahrain A1 list 2003
Brazil Present 2018
Cambodia Quarantine pests —
Switzerland A1 list 2019
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
Costa Rica Absent —
Cyprus Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
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Distribution (135 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

27
Present
107
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Absent —
Afghanistan Absent —
Angola Present —
Albania Absent —
Algeria Absent —
Argentina Present —
American Samoa Absent —
Australia Present
Australia Absent
Azerbaijan Absent —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_001604955.1 Contig 31 21 21 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR13162536 - - - 88322781 missing
SRR13162599 - - - 98798097 missing
SRR13162648 - - - 94616785 missing

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature