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genus Phytophthora - destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants

fungus genus - includes lichen genera

family Pythiaceae, Pythiaceae - fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores

Phytophthora citrophthora - causes brown rot gummosis in citrus fruits

Phytophthora infestans - fungus causing late blight in solanaceous plants especially tomatoes and potatoes

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Speaking on Radio 4's You And Yours programme, he said: 'Sudden Oak Death is a fungus disease which was first identified almost simultaneously in California and Northern Europe and has now been characterised as a new species of the genus Phytophthora which is probably best known to gardeners as the disease that causes potato blight.'

Weekend: Home & Gardens - Fungus in the spotlight; The Forestry Commission and Defra are keeping a close eye on the arrival in the UK of Sudden Oak Death disease. Hannah Stephenson reports

Speaking on Radio 4's You And Yours programme, he said: "Sudden Oak Death is a fungus disease which was first identified almost simultaneously in California and Northern Europe and has now been characterised as a new species of the genus Phytophthora, which is probably best-known to gardeners as the disease that causes potato blight."

Halting the plant pests

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