Rural Development Administration Reorganizes Based on Genetic Analysis of Korean Plant Anthracnose Fungi

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The Rural Development Administration (Administrator Lee Seung-don) announced that it has identified 61 species of plant anthracnose pathogens reported in Korea through genetic analysis, revealing that these pathogens were isolated from 120 plant species and form 203 ‘anthracnose pathogen–plant’ combinations. Since anthracnose pathogens were first recorded in Korea in 1916 by Japanese scholars during the Japanese colonial period on plants such as cotton and kidney beans, 66 species have been registered in the National List of Biological Species at the National Institute of Biological Resources, and 60 species in the Korean List of Plant Diseases by the Korean Society of Plant Pathology. However, as most of these classifications were based on microscopic morphology and host plants, there is a need to reorganize them according to the latest classification system based on genetic analysis…

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