Fusicoccum amygdali | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Phylum: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Subclass: | Incertae sedis |
Order: | Botryosphaeriales |
Family: | Botryosphaeriaceae |
Genus: | Fusicoccum |
Species: | F. amygdali |
Binomial name | |
Fusicoccum amygdali Delacr., (1905) |
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Synonyms | |
Phomopsis amygdali (Delacr.) J.J. Tuset & M.T. Portilla, (1989) |
Fusicoccum amygdali is a plant pathogen, which often releases a toxin known as fusicoccin that causes the stomata of the plant to open.