Flashcards: Tree diseases

Pratylenchus musicola is a plant pathogenic nematode infecting black wallnut.

Phytophthora europaea is a non-papillate homothallic plant pathogen that mainly infects European oak.

Phytophthora psychrophila is a semi-papillate plant pathogen that mainly infects European oak.

Phytophthora uliginosa is a non-papillate homothallic plant pathogen that mainly infects European oak.

Phytophthora pseudosyringae is a semi-papillate homothallic soil-borne plant pathogen causing root and collar rot of deciduous tree species in Europe.

Phytophthora quercina is a papillate homothallic soil-borne plant pathogen causing root rot of oak tree species in Europe.

Pine-pine gall rust, also known as western gall rust, is a fungal disease of pine trees.

Melampsora is a genus of Basidiomycota fungi.

Phytophthora pluvialis is a semi-papillate plant pathogen that mainly infects tanoak-Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon.

Phytophthora polonica is a non-papillate homothallic plant pathogen known to infect alder species.

Phytophthora inflata is a plant pathogen.

Phytophthora kernoviae is a plant pathogen that mainly infects European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Rhododendron ponticum.

Phytophthora plurivora is a very aggressive soil-borne plant pathogen, with worldwide distribution and a wide variety ofhosts.

Phytophthora bilorbang is a non-papillate homothallic plant pathogen known to infect Rubus anglocandicans (European blackberry) in Western Australia.

Helicotylenchus dihystera (Steiner's spiral nematode) is a plant pathogenic nematode.

Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), or HWA, is member of the Sternorrhyncha suborder of the Order Hemiptera and native to East Asia.

Phytophthora alni is an oomycete plant pathogen that causes lethal root and collar rot in alders.

Phytophthora ramorum is the oomycete plant pathogen known to cause the disease sudden oak death (SOD).

The red ring disease of coconuts and African oil palms is caused by the nematode Bursaphelenchus cocophilus.