Posts Tagged ‘Phytophthora’
A tweet sent by fungalgenomes makes the point that Phytopthora infestans, causative of agent of late blight, is not a fungus. Okay I agree. It’s a fungal protist, an Oomycete (commonly known as a water mold) occupying a place that is not exactly fungal, not exactly animal, not completely a typical protist. Oomyctes were formerly [...]
Tags: Oomyctes, phytopathology, Phytophthora
A blog at Discover magazine, Fungus Behind the Irish Potato Famine Strikes the U.S., sounds the alarm on a surge of potato late blight disease (Phytophthora infestans) affecting potatoes and tomatoes on the East coast of the USA. I have noticed a number of other recent web articles popping up on this topic in the [...]
Tags: blight, phytopathology, Phytophthora
