Achlya | |
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Mainly Achlya sp. Isolated from small stream around rice field. Incubated in room temperature on hemp seed | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Stramenopiles |
Phylum: | Oomycota |
Order: | Saprolegniales |
Family: | Saprolegniaceae |
Genus: | Achlya |
Achlya is a genus of oomycete (water mold), in the family Saprolegniaceae. The genus includes several plant pathogens including Achlya conspicua and Achlya klebsiana . Unlike many other microorganisms, cell expansion is governed by changes in cell wall strength rather than changes in osmotic pressure. [1] The genome of Achlya hypogyna has been sequenced and can be accessed on public online databases, for example on the NCBI website (National Center for Biotechnology Information). [2]
The genus was first circumscribed in Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. vol.11 on page 514 in 1823 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck. [3] [4]
The type species is Achlya prolifera . [3]
The genus name of Achlya is named after Achlys, who in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles , is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification of sorrow. [5]
Several Achyla spp. are pathogens of rice seedlings. [6]
As accepted by Species Fungorum; [7]
Former species; (all are Saprolegniaceae family) [7]
Saprolegniaceae is a family of freshwater mould. James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897), an American Mycologist did significant work on this family.