| Synchytrium endobioticum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Chytridiomycota |
| Class: | Chytridiomycetes |
| Order: | Synchytriales |
| Family: | Synchytriaceae |
| Genus: | Synchytrium |
| Species: | S. endobioticum
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| Binomial name | |
| Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Percival (1909)
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Synchytrium endobioticum is a chytrid fungus that causes the potato wart disease, or black scab.[1] It also infects some other plants of the genus Solanum, though potato is the only cultivated host.
- ^ Professor Alan Gemmell Gardening, The Mastermind Quiz Book (Editor: Richard Morgale)