Downy mildews are a notorious group of oomycete plant pathogens, causing high economic
losses in various crops and ornamentals. The most species-rich genus of oomycetes is the …

The oomycete Plasmopara obducens was first described on wild Impatiens noli-tangere in
Germany in 1877. About 125 years later the first occurrence of P. obducens on cultivated I …

Downy mildew diseases caused by Peronosporaceae cause significant crop losses globally,
with several emerging and resurgent threats in recent decades. Biodiversity data from …

Vorgestellt werden interessante Funde von Falschen Mehltauen (Peronosporomycetes),
Echten Mehltaupilzen (Erysiphaceae), Brandpilzen (Ustilaginomycotina), Rostpilzen …

Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is an Andean crop of narrow distribution, but because of the
nutritional and health value, its cultivation area is rapidly expanding. By a broad-spectrum …

All confirmed members of the genus Bremia (Peronosporales; Oomycetes) parasitise
diverse plants of the family Asteraceae. For more than one hundred years, Bremia was …

The New England aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (syn. Aster novaeangliae), is a
perennial plant native to North America. Cultivars of the species are very popular …

Species in the genus Basidiophora (Oomycota, Peronosporales) are pathogens causing
downy mildew disease on several closely related plant hosts in the family Asteraceae …

Like other plant-pathogenic oomycetes, downy mildew species of the genus
Hyaloperonospora manipulate their hosts by secreting effector proteins. Despite intense …

The native perennial New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae; syn.= Aster
novae-angliae) is ubiquitous throughout most of the United States, because it self-seeds and …