In collaboration with Iranian Phytopathological Society

Document Type : Plant Pathology

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In this study 14 Colletotrichum isolates and one Glomerella isolate were obtained from symptomatic legumes plant including alfalfa, clover, bean and soybean.Isolates were subjected to morphological and molecular comparisons. By using morphological features and ITS1, ITS2 and 5.8S regions of rDNA sequences. Four species of Colletotrichum and one species of Glomerella were identified comprising C. acutatum, C. dematium, C. destractivum, C. trancatum and G. cingulata (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Among these species C. acutatum from bean and C. destractivum from alfalfa and clover are new for mycoflora of Iran. In addition This is the first report of C. dematium on bean and G. cingulata on soybesn in Iran as well as C. trancatum on alfalfa is reported for the first time in Hamedan province

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