Take-all | |
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Wheat plants displaying symptoms of take-all root disease. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Magnaporthales |
Family: | Magnaporthaceae |
Genus: | Gaeumannomyces |
Species: | |
Trinomial name | |
Gaeumannomyces tritici subsp. Hernández-Restrepo et al (2016)
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Synonyms | |
Ophiobolus graminis var tritici, Gaeumannomyces graminis var "tritici" |
Take all | |
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Causal agents | Gaeumannomyces tritici |
Hosts | wheat and barley |
Take-all is a plant disease affecting the roots of grass and cereal plants in temperate climates caused by the fungus Gaeumannomyces tritici (previously known as Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici).[1] All varieties of wheat and barley are susceptible. It is an important disease in winter wheat in Western Europe particularly, and is favoured by conditions of intensive production and monoculture.