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Drechslera gigantea

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Species of fungus

Drechslera gigantea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Genus: Drechslera
Species: D. gigantea
Binomial name
Drechslera gigantea
(Heald & F.A. Wolf) S. Ito, (1930)

Drechslera gigantea is a plant pathogen that causes eyespot disease on many host plants. There are Poa pratensis turfgrass cultivars that are resistant to D. gigantea, although that resistance is not as effective when stressed. In 2020, multilocus sequencing identified this pathogen as a member of the genus Bipolaris and proposed D. gigantea be transferred to Bipolaris gigantea.

References

  1. ^ ""Helminthosporium" leaf, crown, and root diseases of turfgrasses - Report on Plant Disease No. 405" (PDF). UIUC College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. May 1999.
  2. Lane, Brett; Stricker, Kerry Bohl; Adhikari, Ashish; Ascunce, Marina S.; Clay, Keith; Flory, S. Luke; Smith, Matthew E.; Goss, Erica M.; Harmon, Philip F. (2020-09-02). "Large-spored Drechslera gigantea is a Bipolaris species causing disease on the invasive grass Microstegium vimineum". Mycologia. 112 (5): 921–931. doi:10.1080/00275514.2020.1781495. ISSN 0027-5514.

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Taxon identifiers
Drechslera gigantea


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