Didymella rabiei

Didymella rabiei
Didymella rabiei growing on chickpea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Didymellaceae
Genus: Didymella
Species:
D. rabiei
Binomial name
Didymella rabiei
(Kovatsch.) Arx, (1962)
Synonyms
  • Mycosphaerella rabiei Kovatsch., (1936)
  • Zythia rabiei Pass., (1867)
  • Phyllosticta cicerina Prill. & Delacr. 1893
  • Phyllosticta rabiei (Pass.) Trotter, (1918)
  • Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Labr., (1931)
  • Phoma rabiei (Pass.) Khune, (1979)
  • Phoma rabiei (Pass.) Khune & J.N. Kapoor, (1980)
  • Phoma rabiei (Pass.) Khune ex Gruyter, (2002)
chickpea ascochyta blight
Bitunicate ascus and ascospores of Didymella rabiei
Common nameschickpea ascochyta, ascochyta blight, blight of chickpea
Causal agentsDidymella rabiei
Hostschickpea
EPPO CodeMYCORA
Distributionworldwide in chickpea growing regions
Genomic information
NCBI IDGCA_001630375.1
Ploidycannot be determined from assembly
Genome size34.65
Number of chromosomesnone scaffolded
Year of completion2016

Didymella rabiei, commonly called chickpea ascochyta blight fungus, is a fungal plant pathogen of chickpea. Didymella rabiei is the teleomorph of Ascochyta rabiei, which is the anamorph, but both names refer to the same species. It is typically aneuploid with 12-16 chromosomes.

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