Repositori URV

Identifier: imarina:9231690

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9231690

Authors:
Geiser DMAl-Hatmi AMSAoki TArie TBalmas VBarnes IBergstrom GCBhattacharyya MKBlomquist CLBowden RLBrankovics BBrown DWBurgess LWBushley KBusman MCano-Lira JFCarrillo JDChang HXChen CYChen WChilvers MChulze SColeman JJCuomo CAWilhelm de Beer ZSybren de Hoog GCastillo-Munera JDDel Ponte EMDieguez-Uribeondo JPietro ADEdel-Hermann VElmer WHEpstein LEskalen AEsposto MCEverts KLFernandez-Pavıa SPda Silva GFForoud NAFourie GFrandsen RJNFreeman SFreitag MFrenkel OFuller KKGagkaeva TGardiner DMGlenn AEGold SEGordon TRGregory NFGryzenhout MGuarro JGugino BKGutierrez SHammond-Kosack KEHarris LJHoma MHong CFHornok LHuang JWIlkit MJacobs AJacobs KJiang Cdel Mar Jimenez-Gasco MKang SKasson MTKazan KKennell JCKim HSCorby Kistler HKuldau GAKulik TKurzai OLaraba ILaurence MHLee TLee YWLee YHLeslie JFLiew ECYLofton LWLogrieco AFLopez-Berges MSLuque AGLysøe EMa LJMarra REMartin FNMay SRMcCormick SPMcGee CMeis JFMigheli QMohamed Nor NMIMonod MMoretti AMostert DMule G

Abstract:
Scientific communication is facilitated by a data-driven, scientifically sound taxonomy that considers the end-user’s needs and established successful practice. In 2013, the Fusarium community voiced near unanimous support for a concept of Fusarium that represented a clade comprising all agriculturally and clinically important Fusarium species, including the F. solani species complex (FSSC). Subsequently, this concept was challenged in 2015 by one research group who proposed dividing the genus Fusarium into seven genera, including the FSSC described as members of the genus Neocosmospora, with subsequent justification in 2018 based on claims that the 2013 concept of Fusarium is polyphyletic. Here, we test this claim and provide a phylogeny based on exonic nucleotide sequences of 19 orthologous protein-coding genes that strongly support the monophyly of Fusarium including the FSSC. We reassert the practical and scientific argument in support of a genus Fusarium that includes the FSSC and several other basal lineages, consistent with the longstanding use of this name among plant pathologists, medical mycologists, quarantine officials, regulatory agencies, students, and researchers with a stake in its taxonomy. In recognition of this monophyly, 40 species described as genus Neocosmospora were recombined in genus Fusarium, and nine others were renamed Fusarium. Here the global Fusarium community voices strong support for the inclusion of the FSSC in Fusarium, as it remains the best scientific, nomenclatural, and practical taxonomic option available.