Phytophthora inflata

Phytophthora inflata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Clade: Pseudofungi
Class: Oomycetes
Order: Peronosporales
Family: Peronosporaceae
Genus: Phytophthora
Species:
P. inflata
Binomial name
Phytophthora inflata
Caros. & Tucker, (1949)

Phytophthora inflata is an oomycete plant pathogen. It was first identified in 1949 in Michigan, USA causing a pit canker on elm trees. It was found in the United Kingdom in 1992 in the roots of Sambucus tenuifolium and Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), in 2003 it was found in a UK nursery infecting Rhododendron ponticum.[1] In the same year it was found in a nursery in Ohio also infecting Rhododendron.[2]

References

  1. ^ Schlenzig, A. (2005). "First report of Phytophthora inflata on nursery plants of Rhododendron spp., Gaultheria shalon and Vaccinium vitis-idaea in Scotland". New Disease Reports. 11 (4): 2. Bibcode:2005PPath..54..582S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2005.01217.x. Retrieved 22 June 2018 – via www.bspp.org.uk.
  2. ^ Antonino, Testa; Mikael, Schilb; Jeffrey S., Lehman; Gennaro, Cristinzio; Pierluigi, Bonello (22 June 2018). "First report of Phytophthora insolita and Phytophthora inflata in Rhododendron". www.fedoa.unina.it. Retrieved 22 June 2018.


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