Golovinomyces latisporus

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).[1][2]

Golovinomyces latisporus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Erysiphaceae
Genus: Golovinomyces
Species:
G. latisporus
Binomial name
Golovinomyces latisporus
(U. Braun) P.L. Qiu & Shu Y. Liu, 2020
Synonyms
  • Erysiphe cichoracearum var. latispora U. Braun, 1983
  • Oidium latisporum U. Braun, 1982

Taxonomy

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Golovinomyces latisporus was first described by Uwe Braun in 1983 with the basionym Erysiphe cichoracearum var. latispora. The variety was later raised to species level by Peng-Lei Qiu et al. in 2020.

References

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  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.
  2. Bradshaw, Michael; Goolsby, Eric; Mason, Chase; Tobin, Patrick C. (2021). "Evolution of Disease Severity and Susceptibility in the Asteraceae to the Powdery Mildew Golovinomyces latisporus: Major Phylogenetic Structure Coupled With Highly Variable Disease Severity at Fine Scales". Plant Disease. 105 (2): 268–275. doi:10.1094/PDIS-06-20-1375-RE. ISSN 0191-2917.