Image Number: 5476022

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Descriptor:
Asexual Spore
Description:
The brown structures with spores oozing from them are the spore producing structures (pycnidia) of Ampelomyces quisqualis, a naturally-occurring fungal hyperparasite of cucurbit powdery mildew.
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Laboratory

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Subject

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Pezizomycotina
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclass: Dothideomycetidae
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Phaeosphaeriaceae
Genus: Ampelomyces
Subject: Ampelomyces quisqualis Ces.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucurbita
Subject: Cucurbita pepo L.
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Image uploaded:
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Image last updated:
Friday, September 7, 2012