Alternaria brassicae
Appearance
Alternaria brassicae | |
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Alternaria brassicae symptoms on cabbage | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Order: | Pleosporales |
Family: | Pleosporaceae |
Genus: | Alternaria |
Species: | A. brassicae
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Binomial name | |
Alternaria brassicae | |
Synonyms | |
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Alternaria brassicae is a plant pathogen able to infect most Brassica species including important crops such as broccoli, cabbage and oil seed rape.[1][2] It causes damping off if infection occurs in younger plants and less severe leaf spot symptoms on infections of older plants[1] .[2]
References
- ^ a b Nowicki, Marcin; et al. (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, archived from the original on 2013-01-03, retrieved 2012-09-01
- ^ a b Ferreira, S.A.; Boley, R.A. (1991). "Alternaria brassicae". University of Hawaii. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
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