{"id":4321,"date":"2024-06-17T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:28:08","slug":"an-overview-of-melanommataceae-pleosporales-dothideomycetes-current-insight-into-the-host-associations-and-geographical-distribution-with-some-interesting-novel-additions-from-plant-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/2024\/06\/17\/an-overview-of-melanommataceae-pleosporales-dothideomycetes-current-insight-into-the-host-associations-and-geographical-distribution-with-some-interesting-novel-additions-from-plant-litter\/","title":{"rendered":"An overview of Melanommataceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes): Current insight into the host associations and geographical distribution with some interesting novel additions from plant litter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melanommataceous species exhibit high diversity with a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide and show a prominent saprobic lifestyle. In this study, we explored five saprobic species collected from plant litter substrates from terrestrial habitats in China and Thailand. A combination of morphological characteristics and multi-locus phylogenetic analyses was used to determine their taxonomic classifications. Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference analyses of combined LSU, SSU, ITS and tef1-\u03b1 sequence data were used to clarify the phylogenetic affinities of the species. <em>Byssosphaeria poaceicola<\/em> and <em>Herpotrichia zingiberacearum<\/em> are introduced as new species, while three new host records, <em>Bertiella fici<\/em>, By. siamensis and <em>Melanomma populicola<\/em> are also reported from litter of <em>Cinnamomum verum<\/em>, <em>Citrus trifoliata<\/em> and <em>Fagus sylvatica<\/em>, respectively. Yet, despite the rising interest in the melanommataceous species, there is a considerable gap in knowledge on their host associations and geographical distributions. Consequently, we compiled the host-species associations and geographical distributions of all the so far known melanommataceous species<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/mycokeys.pensoft.net\/article\/125044\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanommataceous species exhibit high diversity with a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide and show a prominent saprobic lifestyle. In this study, we explored five saprobic species collected from plant litter substrates from terrestrial habitats in China and Thailand. A combination of morphological characteristics and multi-locus phylogenetic analyses was used to determine their taxonomic classifications. Maximum Likelihood and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/2024\/06\/17\/an-overview-of-melanommataceae-pleosporales-dothideomycetes-current-insight-into-the-host-associations-and-geographical-distribution-with-some-interesting-novel-additions-from-plant-litter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An overview of Melanommataceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes): Current insight into the host associations and geographical distribution with some interesting novel additions from plant litter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}