Heterobasidion annosum

TaxID: 13563

Basic Information

Heterobasidion annosum

Root Fomes, Root Rot of Hevea

Heterobasidion annosum is a basidiomycete fungus in the family Bondarzewiaceae. It is considered to be the most economically important forest pathogen in the Northern Hemisphere. Heterobasidion annosum is widespread in forests in the United States and is responsible for the loss of one billion U.S. dollars annually. This fungus has been known by many different names. First described by Fries in 1821, it was known by the name Polyporus annosum. Later, it was found to be linked to conifer disease by Robert Hartig in 1874, and was renamed Fomes annosus by H. Karsten. Its current name of Heterobasidion annosum was given by Brefeld in 1888. Heterobasidion annosum causes one of the most destructive diseases of conifers. The disease caused by the fungus is named annosus root rot.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Basidiomycota

Agaricomycetes

Russulales

Bondarzewiaceae

Heterobasidion

annosum

Undefined

Photos (5 photos)

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Heterobasidion annosum
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Heterobasidion annosum
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(c) Erdi@BY-NC-SA
Heterobasidion annosum
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(c) Erdi@BY-NC-SA
Heterobasidion annosum
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(c) Erdi@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (6 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Argentina Absent 2019
Brazil A1 list 2018
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
India Quarantine pests —
New Zealand Quarantine pests —
Uruguay Absent —

Distribution (63 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Country Status State
Armenia Present —
Australia Present
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present
Switzerland Present —
China Present
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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_001457895.1 Scaffold 27 27 2295 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR12823661 - - - 51286455 Poland

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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