Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex

David M Geiser; Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi; Takayuki Aoki; Tsutomu Arie; Virgilio Balmas; Irene Barnes; Gary C Bergstrom; Madan K Bhattacharyya; Cheryl L Blomquist; Robert L Bowden; Balázs Brankovics; Daren W Brown; Lester W Burgess; Kathryn Bushley; Mark Busman; José F Cano-Lira; Joseph D Carrillo; Hao-Xun Chang; Chi-Yu Chen; Wanquan Chen; Martin Chilvers; Sofia Chulze; Jeffrey J Coleman; Christina A Cuomo; Z Wilhelm de Beer; G Sybren de Hoog; Johanna Del Castillo-Múnera; Emerson M Del Ponte; Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo; Antonio Di Pietro; Véronique Edel-Hermann; Wade H Elmer; Lynn Epstein; Akif Eskalen; Maria Carmela Esposto; Kathryne L Everts; Sylvia P Fernández-Pavía; Gilvan Ferreira da Silva; Nora A Foroud; Gerda Fourie; Rasmus J. N. Frandsen; Stanley Freeman; Michael Freitag; Omer Frenkel; Kevin K Fuller; Tatiana Gagkaeva; Donald M Gardiner; Anthony E Glenn; Scott E Gold; Thomas R Gordon; Nancy F Gregory; Marieka Gryzenhout; Josep Guarro; Beth K Gugino; Santiago Gutierrez; Kim E Hammond-Kosack; Linda J Harris; Mónika Homa; Cheng-Fang Hong; László Hornok; Jenn-Wen Huang; Macit Ilkit; Adriaana Jacobs; Karin Jacobs; Cong Jiang; María Del Mar Jiménez-Gasco; Seogchan Kang; Matthew T Kasson; Kemal Kazan; John C Kennell; Hye-Seon Kim; H Corby Kistler; Gretchen A Kuldau; Tomasz Kulik; Oliver Kurzai; Imane Laraba; Matthew H Laurence; Theresa Lee; Yin-Won Lee; Yong-Hwan Lee; John F Leslie; Edward C Y Liew; Lily W Lofton; Antonio F Logrieco; Manuel S López-Berges; Alicia G Luque; Erik Lysøe; Li-Jun Ma; Robert E Marra; Frank N Martin; Sara R May; Susan P McCormick; Chyanna McGee; Jacques F Meis; Quirico Migheli; N M I Mohamed Nor; Michel Monod; Antonio Moretti; Diane Mostert; Giuseppina Mulè; Françoise Munaut; Gary P Munkvold; Paul Nicholson; Marcio Nucci; Kerry O'Donnell; Matias Pasquali; Ludwig H Pfenning; Anna Prigitano; Robert H Proctor; Stéphane Ranque; Stephen A Rehner; Martijn Rep; Gerardo Rodríguez-Alvarado; Lindy Joy Rose; Mitchell G Roth; Carmen Ruiz-Roldán; Amgad A Saleh; Baharuddin Salleh; Hyunkyu Sang; María Mercedes Scandiani; Jonathan Scauflaire; David G Schmale; Dylan P G Short; Adnan Šišić; Jason A Smith; Christopher W Smyth; Hokyoung Son; Ellie Spahr; Jason E Stajich; Emma Steenkamp; Christian Steinberg; Rajagopal Subramaniam; Haruhisa Suga; Brett A Summerell; Antonella Susca; Cassandra L Swett; Christopher Toomajian; Terry J Torres-Cruz; Anna M Tortorano; Martin Urban; Lisa J Vaillancourt; Gary E Vallad; Theo A J van der Lee; Dan Vanderpool; Anne D van Diepeningen; Martha M Vaughan; Eduard Venter; Marcele Vermeulen; Paul E Verweij; Altus Viljoen; Cees Waalwijk; Emma C Wallace; Grit Walther; Jie Wang; Todd J Ward; Brian L Wickes; Nathan P Wiederhold; Michael J Wingfield; Ana K M Wood; Jin-Rong Xu; Xiao-Bing Yang; Tapani Yli-Mattila; Sung-Hwan Yun; Latiffah Zakaria; Hao Zhang; Ning Zhang; Sean X Zhang; Xue Zhang

doi:10.1094/PHYTO-08-20-0330-LE

Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex

David M Geiser^*, Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi, Takayuki Aoki, Tsutomu Arie, Virgilio Balmas, Irene Barnes, Gary C Bergstrom, Madan K Bhattacharyya, Cheryl L Blomquist, Robert L Bowden, Balázs Brankovics, Daren W Brown, Lester W Burgess, Kathryn Bushley, Mark Busman, José F Cano-Lira, Joseph D Carrillo, Hao-Xun Chang, Chi-Yu Chen, Wanquan ChenMartin Chilvers, Sofia Chulze, Jeffrey J Coleman, Christina A Cuomo, Z Wilhelm de Beer, G Sybren de Hoog, Johanna Del Castillo-Múnera, Emerson M Del Ponte, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo, Antonio Di Pietro, Véronique Edel-Hermann, Wade H Elmer, Lynn Epstein, Akif Eskalen, Maria Carmela Esposto, Kathryne L Everts, Sylvia P Fernández-Pavía, Gilvan Ferreira da Silva, Nora A Foroud, Gerda Fourie, Rasmus J. N. Frandsen, Stanley Freeman, Michael Freitag, Omer Frenkel, Kevin K Fuller, Tatiana Gagkaeva, Donald M Gardiner, Anthony E Glenn, Scott E Gold, Thomas R Gordon, Nancy F Gregory, Marieka Gryzenhout, Josep Guarro, Beth K Gugino, Santiago Gutierrez, Kim E Hammond-Kosack, Linda J Harris, Mónika Homa, Cheng-Fang Hong, László Hornok, Jenn-Wen Huang, Macit Ilkit, Adriaana Jacobs, Karin Jacobs, Cong Jiang, María Del Mar Jiménez-Gasco, Seogchan Kang, Matthew T Kasson, Kemal Kazan, John C Kennell, Hye-Seon Kim, H Corby Kistler, Gretchen A Kuldau, Tomasz Kulik, Oliver Kurzai, Imane Laraba, Matthew H Laurence, Theresa Lee, Yin-Won Lee, Yong-Hwan Lee, John F Leslie, Edward C Y Liew, Lily W Lofton, Antonio F Logrieco, Manuel S López-Berges, Alicia G Luque, Erik Lysøe, Li-Jun Ma, Robert E Marra, Frank N Martin, Sara R May, Susan P McCormick, Chyanna McGee, Jacques F Meis, Quirico Migheli, N M I Mohamed Nor, Michel Monod, Antonio Moretti, Diane Mostert, Giuseppina Mulè, Françoise Munaut, Gary P Munkvold, Paul Nicholson, Marcio Nucci, Kerry O'Donnell, Matias Pasquali, Ludwig H Pfenning, Anna Prigitano, Robert H Proctor, Stéphane Ranque, Stephen A Rehner, Martijn Rep, Gerardo Rodríguez-Alvarado, Lindy Joy Rose, Mitchell G Roth, Carmen Ruiz-Roldán, Amgad A Saleh, Baharuddin Salleh, Hyunkyu Sang, María Mercedes Scandiani, Jonathan Scauflaire, David G Schmale, Dylan P G Short, Adnan Šišić, Jason A Smith, Christopher W Smyth, Hokyoung Son, Ellie Spahr, Jason E Stajich, Emma Steenkamp, Christian Steinberg, Rajagopal Subramaniam, Haruhisa Suga, Brett A Summerell, Antonella Susca, Cassandra L Swett, Christopher Toomajian, Terry J Torres-Cruz, Anna M Tortorano, Martin Urban, Lisa J Vaillancourt, Gary E Vallad, Theo A J van der Lee, Dan Vanderpool, Anne D van Diepeningen, Martha M Vaughan, Eduard Venter, Marcele Vermeulen, Paul E Verweij, Altus Viljoen, Cees Waalwijk, Emma C Wallace, Grit Walther, Jie Wang, Todd J Ward, Brian L Wickes, Nathan P Wiederhold, Michael J Wingfield, Ana K M Wood, Jin-Rong Xu, Xiao-Bing Yang, Tapani Yli-Mattila, Sung-Hwan Yun, Latiffah Zakaria, Hao Zhang, Ning Zhang, Sean X Zhang, Xue Zhang

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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.

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Article number	PHYTO08200330LE
Journal	Phytopathology
Volume	111
Issue number	7
ISSN	0031-949X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-20-0330-LE
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Geiser, D. M., Al-Hatmi, A. M. S., Aoki, T., Arie, T., Balmas, V., Barnes, I., Bergstrom, G. C., Bhattacharyya, M. K., Blomquist, C. L., Bowden, R. L., Brankovics, B., Brown, D. W., Burgess, L. W., Bushley, K., Busman, M., Cano-Lira, J. F., Carrillo, J. D., Chang, H.-X., Chen, C.-Y., ... Zhang, X. (2021). Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex. Phytopathology, 111(7), Article PHYTO08200330LE. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-20-0330-LE

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AU - Al-Hatmi, Abdullah M S

AU - Aoki, Takayuki

AU - Arie, Tsutomu

AU - Balmas, Virgilio

AU - Barnes, Irene

AU - Bergstrom, Gary C

AU - Bhattacharyya, Madan K

AU - Blomquist, Cheryl L

AU - Bowden, Robert L

AU - Brankovics, Balázs

AU - Brown, Daren W

AU - Burgess, Lester W

AU - Bushley, Kathryn

AU - Busman, Mark

AU - Cano-Lira, José F

AU - Carrillo, Joseph D

AU - Chang, Hao-Xun

AU - Chen, Chi-Yu

AU - Chen, Wanquan

AU - Chilvers, Martin

AU - Chulze, Sofia

AU - Coleman, Jeffrey J

AU - Cuomo, Christina A

AU - de Beer, Z Wilhelm

AU - de Hoog, G Sybren

AU - Del Castillo-Múnera, Johanna

AU - Del Ponte, Emerson M

AU - Diéguez-Uribeondo, Javier

AU - Di Pietro, Antonio

AU - Edel-Hermann, Véronique

AU - Elmer, Wade H

AU - Epstein, Lynn

AU - Eskalen, Akif

AU - Esposto, Maria Carmela

AU - Everts, Kathryne L

AU - Fernández-Pavía, Sylvia P

AU - da Silva, Gilvan Ferreira

AU - Foroud, Nora A

AU - Fourie, Gerda

AU - Frandsen, Rasmus J. N.

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AU - Freitag, Michael

AU - Frenkel, Omer

AU - Fuller, Kevin K

AU - Gagkaeva, Tatiana

AU - Gardiner, Donald M

AU - Glenn, Anthony E

AU - Gold, Scott E

AU - Gordon, Thomas R

AU - Gregory, Nancy F

AU - Gryzenhout, Marieka

AU - Guarro, Josep

AU - Gugino, Beth K

AU - Gutierrez, Santiago

AU - Hammond-Kosack, Kim E

AU - Harris, Linda J

AU - Homa, Mónika

AU - Hong, Cheng-Fang

AU - Hornok, László

AU - Huang, Jenn-Wen

AU - Ilkit, Macit

AU - Jacobs, Adriaana

AU - Jacobs, Karin

AU - Jiang, Cong

AU - Jiménez-Gasco, María Del Mar

AU - Kang, Seogchan

AU - Kasson, Matthew T

AU - Kazan, Kemal

AU - Kennell, John C

AU - Kim, Hye-Seon

AU - Kistler, H Corby

AU - Kuldau, Gretchen A

AU - Kulik, Tomasz

AU - Kurzai, Oliver

AU - Laraba, Imane

AU - Laurence, Matthew H

AU - Lee, Theresa

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AU - Lee, Yong-Hwan

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AU - Munkvold, Gary P

AU - Nicholson, Paul

AU - Nucci, Marcio

AU - O'Donnell, Kerry

AU - Pasquali, Matias

AU - Pfenning, Ludwig H

AU - Prigitano, Anna

AU - Proctor, Robert H

AU - Ranque, Stéphane

AU - Rehner, Stephen A

AU - Rep, Martijn

AU - Rodríguez-Alvarado, Gerardo

AU - Rose, Lindy Joy

AU - Roth, Mitchell G

AU - Ruiz-Roldán, Carmen

AU - Saleh, Amgad A

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AU - Sang, Hyunkyu

AU - Scandiani, María Mercedes

AU - Scauflaire, Jonathan

AU - Schmale, David G

AU - Short, Dylan P G

AU - Šišić, Adnan

AU - Smith, Jason A

AU - Smyth, Christopher W

AU - Son, Hokyoung

AU - Spahr, Ellie

AU - Stajich, Jason E

AU - Steenkamp, Emma

AU - Steinberg, Christian

AU - Subramaniam, Rajagopal

AU - Suga, Haruhisa

AU - Summerell, Brett A

AU - Susca, Antonella

AU - Swett, Cassandra L

AU - Toomajian, Christopher

AU - Torres-Cruz, Terry J

AU - Tortorano, Anna M

AU - Urban, Martin

AU - Vaillancourt, Lisa J

AU - Vallad, Gary E

AU - van der Lee, Theo A J

AU - Vanderpool, Dan

AU - van Diepeningen, Anne D

AU - Vaughan, Martha M

AU - Venter, Eduard

AU - Vermeulen, Marcele

AU - Verweij, Paul E

AU - Viljoen, Altus

AU - Waalwijk, Cees

AU - Wallace, Emma C

AU - Walther, Grit

AU - Wang, Jie

AU - Ward, Todd J

AU - Wickes, Brian L

AU - Wiederhold, Nathan P

AU - Wingfield, Michael J

AU - Wood, Ana K M

AU - Xu, Jin-Rong

AU - Yang, Xiao-Bing

AU - Yli-Mattila, Tapani

AU - Yun, Sung-Hwan

AU - Zakaria, Latiffah

AU - Zhang, Hao

AU - Zhang, Ning

AU - Zhang, Sean X

AU - Zhang, Xue

PY - 2021

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Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex

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