Alternaria brassicae

Alternaria brassicae
	Alternaria brassicae symptoms on cabbage
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Pleosporaceae
Genus:	Alternaria
Species:	A. brassicae
Binomial name
	Alternaria brassicae; (Berk.) Sacc., (1880)
Synonyms
	Puccinia brassicae ; Alternaria brassicae var. macrospora ; Alternaria exitiosa ; Alternaria herculea ; ; ; ; ; Sporidesmium exitiosum Macrosporium brassicae; Macrosporium herculeum Polydesmus exitiosus; Rhopalidium brassicae ; Alternaria macrospora Alternaria saccardoi; Cercospora lepidii Cercospora moldavica; ; ; Sporidesmium onnii; Alternaria alliariae-officinalis Macrosporium brassicae var. macrosporum; Macrosporium macrosporum Sporidesmium brassicae;

Alternaria brassicae is a plant pathogen able to infect most Brassica species including important crops such as broccoli, cabbage and oil seed rape.^[1]^[2] It causes damping off if infection occurs in younger plants and less severe leaf spot symptoms on infections of older plants.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Nowicki, Marcin; et al. (30 August 2012), "Alternaria black bpot of crucifers: Symptoms, importance of disease, and perspectives of resistance breeding", Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin, 76, doi:10.2478/v10032-012-0001-6
^ ^a ^b Ferreira, S.A.; Boley, R.A. (1991). "Alternaria brassicae". University of Hawaii. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-04.

Alternaria brassicae conidia

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