Golovinomyces (U. Braun) Heluta, Biol. Zhurn. (Armenii) 41(1): 357 (1988)
Notes – Golovinomyces had been treated as one of the three sections of genus Erysiphe (Braun 1978). Braun (1999) proposed to raise Erysiphe sect. Golovinomyces to the generic level with Erysiphe cichoracearum DC. as the type species, and moved it to a newly established tribe Golovinomyceteae based on the distinct anamorphic characters and the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses (Braun and Takamatsu 2000). Up to 2283 species of plants from 58 families mostly herbaceous plants such as the Asteraceae, Bolaginaceae, Scrophulariaceae and Cucurbitaceae can be infected by species of Golovinomyces (Amano, 1986). Many studies with morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses of this genus were conducted including the studies of evolutionary lineages of the G. cichoracearum complex (Cunnington et al. 2010), evolution of host-parasite relationships of Golovinomyces (Matsuda and Takamatsu 2003; Takamatsu et al. 2013), the spliting of the complex G. biocellatus (Scholler et al. 2016), G. cynoglossi (Braun et al. 2018), G. orontii (Braun et al. 2019) and G. ambrosiae (Qiu et al. 2020a), and the epitypification of G. tabaci (Qiu et al. 2020b). G. ambrosiae, G. spadiceus and G. circumfusus can not be split based only on the ITS and 28S rDNA sequences (Takamatsu et al. 2013). Recent research on the complex G. ambrosiae conducted by Qiu et al. (2020a) illustrated that multilocus phylogeny and further morphological examinations are necessary to split this complex.
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