Albugo candida

Albugo candida
On Shepherd's purse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Oomycota
Order: Albuginales
Family: Albuginaceae
Genus: Albugo
Species:
A. candida
Binomial name
Albugo candida
Synonyms[1]

Aecidium candidum Pers. (1797)
Albugo cruciferarum (DC.) Gray (1821)
Cystopus candidus (Pers.) Lév. (1847)
Uredo candida (Pers.) Fr., (1832)
Uredo cruciferarum DC.

On a mustard leaf

Albugo candida, commonly known as white rust or white blister rust, is an obligate plant pathogen in the family Albuginaceae that infects Brassicaceae species.[2] (Although called a "rust" and a fungus, it is an oomycete.) It has a relatively smaller genome than other oomycetes.[3]

  1. ^ "Albugo candida (Pers.) Roussel: Synonymy". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. ^ Saharan, Govind Singh; Verma, Prithwi Raj; Meena, Prabhu Dayal; Kumar, Arvind (2014). White Rust of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Management. Springer. p. 7. ISBN 978-81-322-1792-3.
  3. ^ Links, Matthew G.; Holub, Eric; Jiang, Rays H.Y.; Sharpe, Andrew G.; Hegedus, Dwayne; Beynon, Elena; Sillito, Dean; Clarke, Wayne E.; Uzuhashi, Shihomi (2011). "De novo sequence assembly of Albugo candida reveals a small genome relative to other biotrophic oomycetes". BMC Genomics. 12: 503. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-503. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 3206522. PMID 21995639.