Golovinomyces latisporus

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Golovinomyces latisporus
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Erysiphales
Family: Erysiphaceae
Genus: Golovinomyces
Species:
G. latisporus
Binomial name
Golovinomyces latisporus
(U. Braun) P.L. Qiu & Shu Y. Liu, 2020
Synonyms
  • Erysiphe cichoracearum var. latisporaU. Braun, 1983
  • Oidium latisporumU. Braun, 1982

Golovinomyces latisporus is a fungal plant pathogen in the family Erysiphaceae (powdery mildews). Part of the Golovinomyces ambrosiae complex, this species infects sunflowers ( Helianthus , and likely Heliopsis too) alongside Zinnia and Rudbeckia . [1]

References

  1. Qiu, Peng-Lei; Liu, Shu-Yan; Bradshaw, Michael; Rooney-Latham, Suzanne; Takamatsu, Susumu; Bulgakov, Timur S.; Tang, Shu-Rong; Feng, Jing; Jin, Dan-Ni; Aroge, Temitope; Li, Yu; Wang, Li-Lan; Braun, Uwe (2020). "Multi-locus phylogeny and taxonomy of an unresolved, heterogeneous species complex within the genus Golovinomyces (Ascomycota, Erysiphales), including G. ambrosiae, G. circumfusus and G. spadiceus". BMC Microbiology. 20 (1) 51. doi: 10.1186/s12866-020-01731-9 . ISSN   1471-2180. PMC   7059721 . PMID   32138640.