Alternaria alternata (Japanese Fungi on Plants)

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Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keiss.
Classification: Deuteromycotina, Hyphomycetes

Distributed widely in Japan. Frequently isolated as a leaf inhabitant on various plants and causes brown spot of tobacco, black leaf spot of strawberry and etc. Disperses by scattering conidia. Teleomorph unknown, but thought to be the genus Lewia.

Characteristics: Plant pathogen, Leaf inhabitant

			Morphology: Teleomorph: Unknown Anamorph: On conidiophores pale brown to olive brown, producing conidia pale brown to light brown, obclavate to obpyriform or ellipsoid, short beak at the tip, surface smooth to verruculose, 20-63 x 9-18 um in size, with several vertical and -8 transverse septa. Produced in an often branched, long chain more than 5 conidia.
Conidia	Chained conidia

Herbarium specimen in NIAES

Specimen No.	Scientific name	Host name	Host scientific name	Symptoms	Geographical origin	Collected date	Collector
257-2-21	Alternaria alternata	Tobacco	Nicotiana tabacum	Brown spot	Oota, Ibaraki	1902.7.12
106-1-67	"	"	"	"			Takimoto, K.

(Described by Tsukiboshi, T., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2002)