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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
DOTHIDEOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of ascomycetes)
PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)
PLEOSPORACEAE
(a family of ascomycetes)
Alternaria
(a genus of dematiaceous hyphomycetes)
Alternaria tomato
(a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)
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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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