TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying and Naming Plant-Pathogenic Fungi: Past, Present, and Future
AU - Crous, Pedro W.
AU - Hawksworth, David L.
AU - Wingfield, Michael J.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Scientific names are crucial in communicating knowledge about fungi. In plant pathology, they link information regarding the biology, host range, distribution, and potential risk. Our understanding of fungal biodiversity and fungal systematics has undergone an exponential leap, incorporating genomics, web-based systems, and DNA data for rapid identification to link species to metadata. The impact of our ability to recognize hitherto unknown organisms on plant pathology and trade is enormous and continues to grow.Major challenges for phytomycology are intertwined with theGenera of Fungi project, which adds DNA barcodes to known biodiversity and corrects the application of old, established names via epi- or neotypification. Implementing the one fungus–one name system and linking names to validated type specimens, cultures, and reference sequences will provide the foundation on which the future of plant pathology and the communication of names of plant pathogens will rest.
AB - Scientific names are crucial in communicating knowledge about fungi. In plant pathology, they link information regarding the biology, host range, distribution, and potential risk. Our understanding of fungal biodiversity and fungal systematics has undergone an exponential leap, incorporating genomics, web-based systems, and DNA data for rapid identification to link species to metadata. The impact of our ability to recognize hitherto unknown organisms on plant pathology and trade is enormous and continues to grow.Major challenges for phytomycology are intertwined with theGenera of Fungi project, which adds DNA barcodes to known biodiversity and corrects the application of old, established names via epi- or neotypification. Implementing the one fungus–one name system and linking names to validated type specimens, cultures, and reference sequences will provide the foundation on which the future of plant pathology and the communication of names of plant pathogens will rest.
KW - Code of Nomenclature
KW - DNA barcoding
KW - MycoBank
KW - phylogeny
KW - polyphasic identification
KW - systematics
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080614-120245
DO - 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080614-120245
M3 - Article
SN - 0066-4286
VL - 53
SP - 247
EP - 267
JO - Annual Review of Phytopathology
JF - Annual Review of Phytopathology
ER -