Fusicoccum amygdali

Fusicoccum amygdali
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)
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.

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