Helminthosporium solani

Helminthosporium solani
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclass: Pleosporomycetidae
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Genus: Helminthosporium
Species: H. solani
Binomial name
Helminthosporium solani
Durieu & Mont., (1849)
Synonyms

Brachysporium solani
Dematium atrovirens
Helminthosporium atrovirens
Spondylocladium atrovirens

Helminthosporium solani is a fungal plant pathogen that causes the disease silver scurf on potato tubers.[1]

References

  1. Errampalli, D.; Saunders, J. M.; Holley, J. D. (2001). "Emergence of silver scurf (Helminthosporium solani) as an economically important disease of potato". Plant Pathology 50 (2): 141. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3059.2001.00555.x.