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genus Phytophthora

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Noun1.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.
``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,'' says Dr Prior.
The genus Phytophthora includes, besides the species that attacks potatoes, one that has alarmed the West Coast with sudden oak death (SN: 8/5/00, p.
 
 
 
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