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Weir et al.Table 4. Perf<strong>or</strong>mance of individual genes at resolving <strong>species</strong> within the <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>. Y – <strong>species</strong>distinguished from all others. N – <strong>species</strong> not distinguished from all others. N* – distinguishes at the sub<strong>species</strong> level.Species ITS GAPDH CAL TUB2 ACT CHS-1 GS SODC. fructicola N N Y N N Y Y YC. nupharicola N Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. alienum N N Y N N Y Y YC. musae Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. aenigma N Y Y Y N Y Y YC. siamense N N Y Y N N N NC. aeschynomenes N N N Y N Y Y YC. tropicale N N N Y Y N Y YC. queenslandicum N Y Y Y N N Y NC. salsolae N Y Y Y Y Y N YC. asianum Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. alatae Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. theobromicola Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. xanth<strong>or</strong>rhoeae Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. h<strong>or</strong>ii Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YC. aotearoa N N Y Y N Y Y NC. ti N Y Y Y N Y Y YC. kahawae N Y N Y Y N N* NG. cingulata “f. sp. camelliae” Y N Y Y Y N Y YC. clidemiae N N N N Y Y Y NC. psidii Y Y Y Y N Y Y YC. c<strong>or</strong>dylinicola Y Y Y Y N Y Y Ygenetically. F<strong>or</strong> example, the fungi referred to as C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioidesf. stylosanthis “f. sp. guianensis” and C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides f.stylosanthis “f. sp. stylosanthis”, are rep<strong>or</strong>tedly associated with twodistinct diseases of Stylosanthes (Irwin & Cameron 1978; Munautet al. 2002), but both taxa genetically match C. theobromicola andare here placed in synonymy with C. theobromicola. It is possiblethat screening additional genes across a set of isolates fromStylosanthes with known pathogenicity will reveal one <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>egenes that generate a phylogeny that c<strong>or</strong>relates with pathogenicity.This is the case with another specialised pathogen, C. kahawae.Originally described as a pathogen of green coffee berries, almostgenetically identical isolates have subsequently been found on awide range of hosts (see notes under C. kahawae). The isolatesfrom other hosts are not pathogenic to coffee berries (Silva et al.2012b). The difference in pathogenicity c<strong>or</strong>relates with a geneticdifference in the GS gene, and we taxonomically recognise thisbiologically specialised population at the sub<strong>species</strong> level. A similarapproach could potentially be taken f<strong>or</strong> other biologically distinctpopulations within a genetically strongly supp<strong>or</strong>ted <strong>species</strong>.Despite the epitypification of C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides in 2008, websearch hits on the name C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides from papers publishedover the past 12 mo show that many auth<strong>or</strong>s will continue to usethe name in the sense of the C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>,presumably regarding this level of identification as sufficient f<strong>or</strong> theirresearch. All of the isolates that we accept in the C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides<strong>complex</strong> share the string 5’–GGGCGGGT–3’ about 139–142 basesafter the ITS1F primer binding site. Based on a comparison withGenBank data, this string appears to be specific to isolates thatwe would accept as members of the C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides <strong>complex</strong>.Several auth<strong>or</strong>s have developed PCR-based, rapid identificationtools f<strong>or</strong> distinguishing members of the C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides <strong>complex</strong>from members of the C. acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>. This has beenprompted because some members of the C. acutatum <strong>complex</strong>have conidia without the acute ends characteristic of this <strong>species</strong> asdescribed by Simmonds (1965), and have at times been confusedwith C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides (Damm et al. 2012, this issue). Primersrep<strong>or</strong>tedly specific to C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides include the CgInt primer f<strong>or</strong>ITS (Mills et al. 1992). In our data set this primer sequence is foundin C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides s. str., C. fructicola, and C. siamense but allof the other taxa that we recognise within the C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides<strong>complex</strong> have one <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e bases not matching the CgInt primer.The practical impact of these differences will depend in part onthe position of the mismatch and stringency of the PCR reaction.Talhinas et al. (2005) discussed the TBCG primer f<strong>or</strong> β-tubulin,and this is found within all of our taxa within the C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioidesgroup except C. musae and C. asianum. Liu et al. (2011) describecharacteristic RFLP bands from glutamine synthetase using therestriction enzyme Pst1. Based on our sequences, this method willgenerate the characteristic C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides bands rep<strong>or</strong>ted by Liuet al. (2011) f<strong>or</strong> C. aenigma, C. alienum, C. aotearoa, C. asianum,C. clidemiae, C. c<strong>or</strong>dylinicola, C. fructicola, C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides s.str., C. h<strong>or</strong>ii, C. queenslandicum, C. salsolae, C. siamense, C. ti,and C. tropicale. Different banding patterns will be produced by C.aeschynomenes (band sizes 253, 316, 388), the two C. kahawaesubspp. (band sizes 112, 388, 457), G. cingulata “f. sp. camelliae”(band sizes 51, 112, 337, 457), and C. musae (band sizes 388,552), but none match the bands rep<strong>or</strong>ted f<strong>or</strong> C. acutatum by theseauth<strong>or</strong>s.176

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