Zhihe Yu

Yangtze University | yangtzeu · Life Sciences

Cavendish banana (Musa spp. AAA group) is one of the main fruit crops worldwide. It is widely planted in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Fujian and Yunnan provinces in southern China. In November 2020, banana fruits with anthracnose symptoms were collected from Dayu Town (N 23.17°, E 109.80°), Guigang City, and Chengjun Town (N 22.60°, E 110.00°), Yuli...

To evaluate the potential of a bacterial strain as a fungal disease control agent and plant growth promoter, its inhibitory effects on phytopathogens such as Bipolaris sorokiniana, Botrytis cinerea, Colletotrichum capsici, Fusarium graminearum, F. oxysporum, Neocosmospora rubicola, Rhizoctonia solani, and Verticillium dahliae were investigated. The...

Tidal flats have been reported to contain many microorganisms and play a critical role in maintaining biodiversity. In surveys of filamentous fungi from tidal flat sediments in China, seven new species of Eurotiales were discovered and described. Morphological characteristics and DNA sequence analyses of combined datasets of the BenA, CaM, and RPB2...

Tobacco, as one of the major cash crops in Guizhou province, China, is severely affected by diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Azoxystrobin is a quinone outside inhibitor (QoI) fungicide extensively used to control various crop diseases in China. To evaluate the potential effect of azoxystrobin on the physiology, morphology, and sclerotial form...

Persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) is widely cultivated in China. On October 15, 2019, about 10% of persimmon fruits showed fruit rot in the orchards of Guilin, Guangxi, China (24°45' N, 110°24' E), which could cause more than 15% of yield losses. The initial symptoms of fruit rot exhibited irregular brown to black spots (range from 2 to 4 cm in dia...

Tobacco is one of the vital economic crops in China. Nevertheless, tobacco diseases cause substantial economic losses each year. Tobacco target spot is a fungal disease which commonly found on the leaves. While both sexual and asexual reproduction can occur, asexual reproduction is much more common in tobacco. In June 2022, target spot was found on...

In recent years, STROBY (50% Kresoxim-methyl) has been widely used to control tobacco brown spot in Guizhou Province, China. As a broad-spectrum fungicide, STROBY targets not only phytopathogens, but also affects many other microorganisms including those pathogenic, beneficial, or neutral to the plant hosts. To understand the effects of STROBY on t...

Seven Fusarium species complexes are treated, namely F. aywerte species complex (FASC) (two species), F. buharicum species complex (FBSC) (five species), F. burgessii species complex (FBURSC) (three species), F. camptoceras species complex (FCAMSC) (three species), F. chlamydosporum species complex (FCSC) (eight species), F. citricola species compl...

Alternaria is a ubiquitous fungal genus including saprobic, endophytic, and pathogenic species associated with a wide variety of substrates. It has been separated into 29 sections and seven monotypic lineages based on molecular and morphological data. Alternaria sect. Porri is the largest section, containing the majority of large-spored Alternaria...

In the tobacco phyllosphere, some of the microbes may have detrimental effects on plant health, while many may be neutral or even beneficial. Some cannot be cultivated, so culture-independent methods are needed to explore microbial diversity. In this study, both metagenetic analysis and traditional culture-dependent methods were used on asymptomati...

Two new Fusicolla species are described and illustrated based on strains isolated from soil and rotten twig. Morphological features and DNA sequence analyses of combined ITS and LSU regions support their placements in Fusicolla and recognition of new species. Fusicolla gigas sp. nov. is characterized by C-shaped, 0−4(−5)-septate microconidia, falca...

Star anise (Illicium verum) has been cultivated for centuries in southern China, and its fruit is an important seasoning spice, and can be used as a medicine (Wang et al. 2011). It is grown mainly in Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces, in China. Anthracnose is one of the important diseases of star anise, which seriously affects the y...

Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.), a native fruit tree from southern China, has been planted in many subtropical and tropical countries for its fruit which are considered delicious and of medicinal value (Anderson et al. 2013). Anthracnose, one of the most important diseases on litchi, can cause flower drop, fruit drop, and fruit rot. Infected leaves...

Mango is one of the important commercially cultivated fruit crops in southern China. In continuing research on foliar diseases of mango in south of China during 2016–2017, leaf spot disease was common at all mango orchards investigated. The purpose of this study was to investigate Fusarium species associated with leaf spots of mango in the main pro...

Zizyphus mauritiana Lam. is an important tropical fruit tree and has significant economic value. It is widely planted in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian provinces in China (Yang et al. 2017). In March 2019, leaf spot was observed on leaves of Z. mauritiana at Bagui fields in Nanning, Guangxi, China, with incidence exceeding 50%. Symptomatic l...

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is a leafy, annual, solanaceous plant grown commercially for its leaves in China. In continuing research on foliar diseases of tobacco in Guizhou province in August 2019, diseased leaves of tobacco that had sandy beige, elliptical or irregular shaped lesions, with brown in edge, and surrounded by yellow halos on 40% o...

Callerya speciosa Champ is a climbing shrub in the Fabaceae. It is widely grown in Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan etc. provinces in China, and widely cultivated for its tubers, which are edible and are reported to have antibacterial and anti-oxidant effects (Yin et al., 2010). In September 2014, leaf spot symptoms were observed on foliage of C. spec...

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is an economically significant fruit crop in provinces of southern China including Hainan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Fujian. The objective of this study was to examine the diversity of Colletotrichum species infecting mango cultivars in major growing areas in China, using morphological and molecular techniq...

Mango is an economically important fruit crop in southern China. However, leaf spots restrict the development of mango trees, reducing the yield and production. Pestalotioid fungi are one of the major agents causing leaf spots on mango. During 2016 and 2017, 21 isolates of pestalotioid fungi associated with leaf spots on mango leaves were collected...

We report here a draft genome sequence of an ex-type strain of Aspergillus neoellipticus , NRRL 5109, which was isolated from pus of a case of chronic emphysema. The final assembly consists of 160 scaffolds totaling 27.55 Mbp (G+C content, 49.96%) and 8,858 predicted genes.

Metabolic profiling of B. cinerea hosted by tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry on the PM 2 MicroPlate.

Data for the Biolog Phenotype MicroArray PM 1–10 plates for the four isolates of Botrytis cinerea. V1, T1, C1, and S1 were the isolates of B. cinerea from tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry, respectively. The PM 1 to PM 10 plates for each isolate are presented at the first row, first column; first row, second column; second row, first column...

Metabolic ratio of four isolates of Botrytis cinerea on Biolog PM 1 to 10 MicroPlates.

Metabolic profiling of B. cinerea hosted by tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry on the PM 1 MicroPlate.

Metabolic profiling of B. cinerea hosted by tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry on the PM 4 MicroPlate.

Metabolic profiling of B. cinerea hosted by tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry on the PM 9 MicroPlate.

Metabolic profiling of B. cinerea hosted by tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry on the PM 10 MicroPlate.

Metabolic profiling of B. cinerea hosted by tomato, tobacco, cucumber, and strawberry on the PM 3 MicroPlate.

Botrytis cinerea , which causes gray mold, is an important pathogen in four important economic crops, tomato, tobacco, cucumber and strawberry, in China and worldwide. Metabolic phenomics data onB. cinereaisolates from these four crops were characterized and compared for 950 phenotypes with a BIOLOG Phenotype MicroArray (PM). The results showed tha...

Here, we present a draft genome sequence of isolate 15060 of Colletotrichum fructicola , a causal agent of mango anthracnose. The final assembly consists of 1,048 scaffolds totaling 56,493,063 bp (G+C content, 53.38%) and 15,180 predicted genes.

Nectria tibetensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on specimens collected from Nyingchi City, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The fungus occurs at high altitudes, and is characterized by superficial, aggregated, subglobose to globose ascomata with warted surface, and clavate asci with ellipsoidal to fusiform, 1-septate ascospores that a...

Tobacco grey mold caused by Botrytis cinerea is an important fungal disease worldwide. Boscalid, carbendazim, iprodione, pyrimethanil and propiconazole are representative botryticides for grey mold management. This research investigated the sensitivities of B. cinerea from tobacco to these chemicals using the Biolog FF Microplate. All five chemical...

Endophytic micro-organisms may form mutualistic symbioses with plants, and some enhance plant survival especially in adverse environments. To further understand the diversity of endophytes in orchids, internal root-associated fungi were isolated from two terrestrial orchids, Cymbidium goeringii and C. faberi. From three sampling sites in Hubei Prov...

A DNA barcode is a short segment of sequence that is able to distinguish species. A barcode must ideally contain enough variation to distinguish every individual species and be easily obtained. Fungi of Nectriaceae are economically important and show high species diversity. To establish a standard DNA barcode for this group of fungi, the genomes of...

To investigate the conserved homologs of filamentous ascomycetes genomes, the local fungal genome database used in this analysis was established, which consisted of 31 latest and complete genome data publicly available on the Internet. An expectation value cutoff of 0.1 was used to identify significant hits. Each complete gene set of the query geno...

This study aimed to evaluate relationships of Antrodia species and related taxa, including the taxonomic status of some Antrodia species that have been treated as separate genera (Amyloporia, Fibroporia, and Taiwanofungus). A comprehensive phylogenetic study of Homobasidiomycetes presented by Binder et al. in 2005, was consulted for sampling the ta...

Taiwanofungus Sheng H. Wu, Z.H. Yu, Y.C. Dai & C.H. Su is proposed as a new genus of lignicolous poly- pore, and Ganoderma comphoratum M. Zang & C.H. Su is designated as its generic type. New combinations for two species of Taiwanofungus are presented: T. camphoratus (M. Zang & C.H. Su) Sheng H. Wu, Z.H. Yu, Y.C. Dai & C.H. Su, and T. salmoneus (T....

Species of Lachnum from the tropical Guangdong, Guangxi,Yunnan, and Hainan, China were surveyed. Four new species including an Arachnopeziza, three new varieties, and five new records for China are reported. Lachnum bannaënse, L. privum, L. pseudosclerotii, and Arachnopeziza colachna, are described as new species. Lachnum abnorme var. sinotropicum,...

Psilachnum hainanense is described as a new species. Four taxa in the genera Cistella, Perrotia, Proliferodiscus, and Vibrissea are reported for the first time from China. Infraspecific variations among collections of six other discomycetes in tropical and subtropical regions are discussed.

Two new species of Perrotia with septate ascospores are described from tropical Yunnan, China. The new taxa are compared with related fungi. A key to the accepted species of Perrotia is provided.

Forty-six discomycetes of thirty genera belonging to twelve different families are found in the Changbai Mountains. Among them, Albotricha changbaiensis and Scutellinia jilinensis are described as new taxa. Albotricha minuta, Cistella geelmuydenii, Dasyscyphella dryina, Hamatocanthoscypha uncipila, Holwaya mucida subsp. nipponica, Hymenoscyphus cf....