Mycosphaerella pinodes

Mycosphaerella pinodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclass: Dothideomycetidae
Order: Capnodiales
Family: Mycosphaerellaceae
Genus: Mycosphaerella
Species: Mycosphaerella pinodes
Binomial name
Mycosphaerella pinodes
(Berk. & A. Bloxam) Vestergr., (1912)
Synonyms

Ascochyta pinodes L.K. Jones, (1927)
Didymella pinodes (Berk. & A. Bloxam) Petr., (1924)
Didymellina pinodes (Berk. & A. Bloxam) Höhn., (1918)
Sphaerella pinodes (Berk. & A. Bloxam) Niessl, (1875)
Sphaeria pinodes Berk. & A. Bloxam, (1861)

Mycosphaerella pinodes is a fungal plant pathogen that causes ascochyta blight on pea. Symptoms include lesions of the leaves, stem and pods of the plant. The disease is difficult to distinguish from blight causes by Ascochyta pisi, though M. pinodes is the more aggressive of the two pathogens.[1]

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References

  1. pea ascohyta blight symptoms
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