Exobasidium vexans

TaxID: 84745

Basic Information

Exobasidium vexans

Blister Blight of Tea

Exobasidium vexans is a plant pathogen affecting tea ("Camellia sinensis"). Blister blight caused by Exobasidium vexans is a devastating leaf disease in tea (Camellia sinensis) in almost all tea growing regions in Asia. This disease causes serious crop losses under inclement weather conditions besides affecting quality of made tea. Although tea cultivars show varying degrees of resistance/susceptibility to blister blight, a cultivar showing total resistance to blister blight has not yet been identified. The mature two-celled basidiospores are very easily dislodged from the sterigmata and are usually to be found on the surface of the blister. In carefully collected material we have seen the mature two-celled basidiospores attached to sterigmata. Although the basidiospore is normally one-septate, as many as three septa have been seen in germinated spores. The view is expressed that the extra septa are normally formed during germination.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Basidiomycota

Exobasidiomycetes

Exobasidiales

Exobasidiaceae

Exobasidium

vexans

Undefined

Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (1 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Camellia sinensis Host

Quarantine Status (8 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Greece Quarantine pests —
Iran Absent 2018
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Mozambique Quarantine pests —
Mauritius Quarantine pests —
New Caledonia Quarantine pests —
French Polynesia Quarantine pests —
Senegal Quarantine pests —

Distribution (13 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Bangladesh Present —
Cambodia Present —
China Present
Indonesia Present —
India Present —
Japan Present —
Sri Lanka Present —
Malaysia Present
Nepal Present —
Pakistan Present —
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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature