Global InformationGlobisporangium sylvaticum information
| Globisporangium sylvaticum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Oomycota |
| Order: | Peronosporales |
| Family: | Pythiaceae |
| Genus: | Globisporangium |
| Species: | G. sylvaticum
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| Binomial name | |
| Globisporangium sylvaticum (W.A. Campb. & F.F. Hendrix) Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish., 2010
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| Synonyms | |
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Pythium sylvaticum | |
Globisporangium sylvaticum is a plant pathogen, an oomycete known to cause root rot and damping off in a multitude of species. These species include apples, carrot, cherry laurel, cress, cucumber, garlic, lettuce, pea, rhododendron, and spinach.[1] Symptoms of infection include stunting, wilt, chlorosis, and browning and eventual necrosis of roots.[2] The pathogen can by identified by the presence of thick, microscopic, round spores within the cells of the root.
The species was formerly placed in the genus Pythium, but that genus has been divided into five distinct clades, each characterized by the morphology of the sporangium.[3]
- ^ Pettitt, Tim (April 2015). A desk-study to review global knowledge on best practice for Oomycete root-rot detection and control (Report).
- ^ Moorman, Gary W. (12 June 2004). "Pythium". Penn State Extension.
- ^ Uzuhashi, Shihomi; Kakishima, Makoto; Tojo, Motoaki (September 2010). "Phylogeny of the genus Pythium and description of new genera". Mycoscience. 51 (5): 337–365. doi:10.1007/s10267-010-0046-7. S2CID 83622477.