Phytophthora inflata

Phytophthora inflata
Scientific classification
Phylum:Heterokontophyta
Class:Oomycota
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. (30 November -0001). "First report of Phytophthora inflata on nursery plants of Rhododendron spp., Gaultheria shalon and Vaccinium vitis-idaea in Scotland". New Disease Reports. 11: 2. Retrieved 22 June 2018 – via www.bspp.org.uk. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ Antonino, Testa,; Mikael, Schilb,; S., Lehman, Jeffrey; 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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