2024 Volume 66 Pages 68-70
The causal fungus of gray blight on tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze] collected in Shiga Prefecture in 2019 and strains registered in the NARO Genebank as Pseudopestalotiopsis theae (Sawada) Maharachch., K. D. Hyde & Crous were reexamined. Phylogenetic and morphological examinations revealed that all strains were Pseudopestalotiopsis chinensis F. Liu & L. Cai.