Phaeosphaeria nodorum

Phaeosphaeria nodorum
Necrosis on wheat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Phaeosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Phaeosphaeria
Species:	P. nodorum
Binomial name
Phaeosphaeria nodorum (E.Müll.) Hedjar. (1969)
Synonyms
Depazea nodorum Berk. (1845) Hendersonia nodorum (Berk.) Petr. (1947) Leptosphaeria nodorum E.Müll. (1952) Septoria glumarum Pass. (1879) Septoria nodorum (Berk.) Berk. (1845) Stagonospora nodorum (Berk.) E.Castell. & Germano (1977) Parastagonospora nodorum (Berk.) Quaedvlieg, Verkley & Crous. (2013)

Phaeosphaeria nodorum (syn. Stagonospora nodorum, synonym and correct taxonomic name: Parastagonospora nodorum)^[1] is a major fungal pathogen of wheat (Triticum aestivum), causing the disease Septoria nodorum blotch. It is a member of the Dothideomycetes, a large fungal taxon that includes many important plant pathogens affecting all major crop plant families.