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Image Number: 5512391

Pythium root and stem rot (Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitzp.) (Edson) Fitzp.

Photographer:
Emma Lookabaugh
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Symptoms
Description:
Pythium root rot of poinsettia ‘Freedom Red’. Root necrosis caused by Pythium aphanidermatum.
Image type:
Laboratory
Host:
poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch)

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Subject

Kingdom: Chromista
Phylum: Oomycota
Class: Oomycetes
Order: Peronosporales
Family: Pythiaceae
Genus: Pythium
Subject: Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitzp.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Euphorbiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia
Subject: Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image uploaded:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Image last updated:
Wednesday, June 11, 2014