Crivellia

Crivellia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclass: Pleosporomycetidae
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Genus: Crivellia
Shoemaker & Inderbitzin
Type species
Crivellia papaveracea
(De Not.) Shoemaker & Inderb.
Synonyms[1]

1863 Cucurbitaria papaveracea De Not.
1883 Pleospora papaveracea (De Not.) Sacc.
1917 Helminthosporium papaveris Sawada
1950 Dendryphion penicillatum var. sclerotiale Meffert
1959 Dendryphion papaveris (Sawada) Sawada
2006 Brachycladium papaveris (Sawada) Shoemaker & Inderb.

Crivellia is a genus of fungi in the family Pleosporaceae.[2] It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Crivellia papaveracea, which causes leaf blight of opium poppy. The fungus is found in Europe, Australia, India, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, USA and Zambia.[1]

"Agent Green" in Colombia

In 2000, the government of Colombia proposed dispersing strains of Crivellia and Fusarium oxysporum, also known as Agent Green, as a biological weapon to forcibly eradicate coca and other illegal crops.[3] The weaponized strains were developed by the US government, who had conditioned their approval of Plan Colombia on the use of this weapon, but ultimately withdraw that condition.[4] In February 2001, the EU Parliament also issued a declaration specifically against the use of these biological agents in warfare.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Crivellia papaveracea (De Not.) Inderb. & Shoemaker 2006". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
  2. ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ https://www.grain.org/article/entries/306-sprouting-up-battle-lines-drawn-over-agent-green
  4. ↑ http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0102/S00023.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0102/S00023.htm


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