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unusual facts about plant pathogen



Amphobotrys ricini

Amphobotrys ricini is a plant pathogen which causes disease on several species including Gray Mold Blight on Euphorbia milii and poinsettia.

Entyloma ageratinae

Entyloma ageratinae, commonly known as the mist flower smut, is a leaf smut fungus and plant pathogen, originally from Jamaica, that is widely employed as a biological herbicide in the control of the invasive plant Ageratina riparia.

Exobasidiaceae

Members of the Exobasidiaceae are plant pathogens that grow on the leaves of plants, especially those in the Ericaceae family.

Microascales

Some species are plant pathogens, such as Ceratocystis fimbriata, transmitted by beetles to living trees and causing cacao wilt and many other economically important diseases.

Puccinia psidii

Puccinia psidii is a rust (a type of plant pathogen) native to Brazil with a very broad host range in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae).

Septocyta ruborum

It is a plant pathogen and grows on Rubus laciniatus, R. nessensis, R. procerus and wild blackberry (R. fruticosus); it causes purple blotch or stem spot disease, also known as dieback of blackberries.

Vitis tiliifolia

Vitis tiliifolia may have some resistance to Pierce's disease (PD) which afflicts many commercial grape species; it has exhibited atypical symptoms despite harboring high populations of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa, which causes PD.


see also

Bi-color

Rosellinia bicolor, a fungal plant pathogen species in the genus Rosellinia

C. purpureum

Chondrostereum purpureum, the silver leaf, a fungus plant pathogen species

Discula

The name Discula is ambiguous and also refers to a genus of fungi in the family Valsaceae to which belongs the plant pathogen dogwood anthracnose Discula destructiva.

E. australis

Elsinoƫ australis, a plant pathogen species that causes sweet orange scab

Erwinia

Erwinia is a genus of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria containing mostly plant pathogenic species which was named for the famous phytobacteriologist, Erwin Frink Smith.

M. phyllostachydis

Mycosphaerella phyllostachydis, a plant pathogen fungus species of the genus Mycosphaerella

Nectriella pironii

Nectriella pironii is a plant pathogen, that parasitizes Aphelandra squarrosa, Clerodendron bungei, Codiaeum variegatum, Jussiaea peruviana, Leucophyllum frutescens, Pittosporum tobria, Plumbago capensis and Psychotria undata.

P. purpurea

Puccinia purpurea, a plant pathogen species that causes rust on sorghum

Taphrina wiesneri

Taphrina wiesneri is a plant pathogen causing witch's broom formations on Cherry trees (Prunus & Cerasus sp).

White rust

Albugo candida, a type of plant pathogen known as "white rust"