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Sclerospora graminicola

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Sclerospora graminicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Oomycota
Order: Peronosporales
Family: Peronosporaceae
Genus: Sclerospora
Species:
S. graminicola
Binomial name
Sclerospora graminicola
(Sacc.) J. Schröt., (1886)
Synonyms

Peronospora graminicola
Peronospora setariae
Protomyces graminicola
Sclerospora graminicola var. setariae-italicae
Sclerospora setariae-italicae
Ustilago urbani

Sclerospora graminicola is a plant pathogen infecting maize and foxtail and pearl millet. Sclerospora graminicola was originally described by Saccardo in 1879 as Protomyces graminicola from infected Setaria verticillata. Schroeter examined infected Setaria viridis and determined that this species should be placed in a new genus that he named Sclerospora. [1] Sclerospora graminicola primarily infects C4 photosynthetic grasses of the subfamily Panicoideae, possibly due to C4 photosynthesis allowing for a greater complexity of carbohydrate substrates. [2]

References

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  1. ^ Safeeulla, K. M. (1976). Biology and control of the downy mildews of pearl millet, sorghum, and finger millet. Manasagangothri, Mysore University, Mysore, India: Wesley Press.
  2. ^ Dick, M. W. (2001). Stramenipilous fungi: Systematics of the Peronosporomycetes including accounts of the marine straminipilous protists, the plasmodiophorids and similar organisms. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.