EPPO Global Database

Botryosphaeria kuwatsukai(PHYOPI)

Distribution details in United States of America

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2015: Absent, unreliable record
Comments
In their taxonomic studies, Xu et al. (2015) considered that one US isolate from Malus domestica, previously identified as B. dothidea, corresponds to B. kuwatsukai. For the moment, the occurrence of this fungal species in North America is not confirmed by any other studies.
References
* Xu C, Wang CS, Ju LL, Zhang R, Biggs AR, Tanaka E, Li BZ, Sun GY (2015) Multiple locus genealogies and phenotypic characters reappraise the causal agent of apple ring rot in China. Fungal Diversity 71, 215-231.
------- Isolate PD 313 from USA on M. domestica is in fact B. kuwatsukai.