Fungal taxonomists pursue a seemingly impossible quest: to discover and give names to all
of the world's mushrooms, moulds and yeasts. Taxonomists have a reputation for being …

The pace of pathogen discovery is rapidly accelerating. This reflects not only factors that
enable the appearance and globalization of new microbial infections, but also improvements …

Alternaria is a ubiquitous fungal genus that includes saprobic, endophytic and pathogenic
species associated with a wide variety of substrates. In recent years, DNA-based studies …

Dothideomycetes comprise a highly diverse range of fungi characterized mainly by asci with
two wall layers (bitunicate asci) and often with fissitunicate dehiscence. Many species are …

Diaporthe (Phomopsis) species have often been reported as plant pathogens, non-
pathogenic endophytes or saprobes, commonly isolated from a wide range of hosts. The …

Fusarium (Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) is one of the most economically important and
systematically challenging groups of mycotoxigenic phytopathogens and emergent human …

Septoria represents a genus of plant pathogenic fungi with a wide geographic distribution,
commonly associated with leaf spots and stem cankers of a broad range of plant hosts. A …

The anamorphic genus Phoma was subdivided into nine sections based on morphological
characters, and included teleomorphs in Didymella, Leptosphaeria, Pleospora and …

The order Botryosphaeriales represents several ecologically diverse fungal families that are
commonly isolated as endophytes or pathogens from various woody hosts. The taxonomy of …

Novel species of microfungi described in the present study include the following from South
Africa: Camarosporium aloes, Phaeococcomyces aloes and Phoma aloes from Aloe, C …