Cochliobolus


The fungal genus Cochliobolus includes 55 species, including the following plant pathogenic species: C. carbonum, C. heterostrophus, C. miyabeanus, C. sativus and C. lunatus.

Heterothallism and homothallism

Those fungi that need a partner to mate are referred to as heterothallic, and those fungi not needing a partner are referred to as homothallic. A study of DNA sequences of mating type loci from different heterothallic and homothallic species in the genus Cochliobolus suggests that homothallism can be derived from heterothallism by recombination.

Brief species information