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Phytophthora inflata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	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. In the same year it was found in a nursery in Ohio also infecting Rhododendron.

References

1. Schlenzig, A. (2005). "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.
2. Antonino, Testa; Mikael, Schilb; Jeffrey S., Lehman; 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.

External links

• Index Fungorum
• USDA ARS Fungal Database

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