Genetic analysis of the tree leaf disease microfungus Rhytisma acerinum

Abstract

In the work presented in silico DNA sequence and dendrogram analyses were carried out to reveal molecular diversity and genetic distances among Rhytisma entries and related species based on gene bank data mining. The study revealed that R. acerinum shows the closest genetic distance to R. polare. DNA nucleotide variation detected raised a need for consensus between the Linnean morphological and the new molecular systematics.