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Image Number: 1402006

Pythium diseases (Genus Pythium) Pringsh.

Photographer:
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Descriptor:
Symptoms
Description:
Under severe situations, the plant bed may be bare. Newly transplanted tobacco is vulnerable to damping-off during cool, wet weather. Pythium lesions are large and wet. They extend up the plant tissue or encompass the entire stem.
Image type:
Field
Host:
flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum (flue-cured type) L.)

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Subject

Kingdom: Chromista
Phylum: Oomycota
Class: Oomycetes
Order: Peronosporales
Family: Pythiaceae
Genus: Pythium
Subject: Pythium spp. Pringsh.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Nicotiana
Subject: Nicotiana tabacum (flue-cured type) L.
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image uploaded:
Sunday, March 10, 2002
Image last updated:
Tuesday, March 1, 2011