Synchytrium endobioticum

Synchytrium endobioticum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Chytridiomycota
Class: Chytridiomycetes
Order: Synchytriales
Family: Synchytriaceae
Genus: Synchytrium
Species:
S. endobioticum
Binomial name
Synchytrium endobioticum
(Schilb.) Percival (1909)
Synonyms
  • Chrysophlyctis endobiotica Schilb. (1896)

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.

  1. ^ Professor Alan Gemmell Gardening, The Mastermind Quiz Book (Editor: Richard Morgale)