Biology:Alternaria brassicae

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Short description: Species of fungus

Alternaria brassicae
Alternaria brassicae symptoms on cabbage
Alternaria brassicae symptoms on cabbage
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Genus: Alternaria
Species:
A. brassicae
Binomial name
Alternaria brassicae
(Berk.) Sacc., (1880)
Synonyms[1]

Alternaria brassicae is a plant pathogen able to infect most Brassica species including important crops such as broccoli, cabbage and oil seed rape.[2][3] It causes damping off if infection occurs in younger plants and less severe leaf spot symptoms on infections of older plants.[2][3]

References

  1. "Species Fungorum - GSD Species". https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/GSDSpecies.asp?RecordID=214057. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nowicki, Marcin (30 August 2012), "Alternaria black bpot of crucifers: Symptoms, importance of disease, and perspectives of resistance breeding", Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin 76, doi:10.2478/v10032-012-0001-6 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ferreira, S.A.; Boley, R.A. (1991). "Alternaria brassicae". University of Hawaii. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080926063110/http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/Type/a_brass1.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-04. 
Alternaria brassicae conidia

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4736348 entry