Nigrospora sphaerica

TaxID: 114231

Basic Information

Nigrospora sphaerica

Squirter Disease of Banana

Nigrospora sphaerica is an airborne filamentous fungus in the phylum Ascomycota. It is found in soil, air, and plants as a leaf pathogen. It can occur as an endophyte where it produces antiviral and antifungal secondary metabolites. Sporulation of N. sphaerica causes its initial white coloured colonies to rapidly turn black. N. sphaerica is often confused with the closely related species N. oryzae due to their morphological similarities.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Ascomycota

Sordariomycetes

Amphisphaeriales

Apiosporaceae

Nigrospora

sphaerica

Undefined

Photos (5 photos)

Nigrospora sphaerica
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Nigrospora sphaerica
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Nigrospora sphaerica
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(c) Jie-Hao Ou@BY
Nigrospora sphaerica
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(c) Jie-Hao Ou@BY
Nigrospora sphaerica
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(c) Jie-Hao Ou@BY

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 (1 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Sudan Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_018287875.1 Contig 51 4641 4641 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR25490198 - - - 21625762 China: Hangzhou

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature