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Alternaria tomato (Cooke) L.R. Jones, 1896 (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)

Suggested Literature

Alternaria tomato may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Alternaria tomato is associated with:

Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph Lycopersicon esculentum - Tomato (Solanaceae) Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live fruit Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes spots which resemble the heads of nails]
Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph Lycopersicon esculentum - Tomato (Solanaceae) Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes small sunken blackish-brown spots, which tend to become pale in the centre]

Associated with Alternaria tomato:

Alternaria tomato may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
Alternaria
(a genus of dematiaceous hyphomycetes)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook

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