Alternaria brassicae

Alternaria brassicae is a plant pathogen able to infect most Brassica species including important crops such as broccoli, cabbage and oil seed rape.^[2][3] It causes damping off if infection occurs in younger plants and less severe leaf spot symptoms on infections of older plants.^[2][3]

Alternaria brassicae
Alternaria brassicae symptoms on cabbage
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Pleosporaceae
Genus:	Alternaria
Species:	A. brassicae
Binomial name
Alternaria brassicae (Berk.) Sacc., (1880)
Synonyms[1]
List Alternaria alliariae-officinalis Săvul. & Sandu, Hedwigia 73: 130 (1933) Alternaria brassicae f. acanthi Politis, Phragmat. Akad. Athen. 4: 40 (1935) Alternaria brassicae f. citri Penz., Fung. Agrum.: 92, tab. 1206 (1882) Alternaria brassicae f. phaseoli Brunaud, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest 4: 38 (1894) Alternaria brassicae f. tritici Brunaud, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest 4: 38 (1894) Alternaria brassicae var. dianthi F. Zimmerman, Ochr. Rost. 4(1): 9 (1924) Alternaria brassicae var. exitiosa (J.G. Kühn) Ferraris, Fl. ital. crypt., Fungi 1(8): 521 (1912) Alternaria brassicae var. microspora J.A. Elliott, Danish species of Alternaria & Stemphylium: 129 (1945) Alternaria brassicae var. macrospora Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 4: 546 (1886) Alternaria brassicae var. putrefaciens Preissecker, Fachl. Mitteil. Österr. Tabakregie 16: 14 (1916) Alternaria brassicae var. solani Preissecker, Fachl. Mitteil. Österr. Tabakregie 16: 14 (1916) Alternaria exitiosa (J.G. Kühn) Jørst., Meld. Stat. Plantepat. Inst. Oslo 50: 94 (1945) Alternaria herculea (Ellis & G. Martin) J.A. Elliott, Am. J. Bot. 4: 472 (1917) Alternaria macrospora (Sacc.) Mussat, in Saccardo, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 15: 43 (1901) Alternaria macrospora (Sacc.) Sawada, Rep. Dept Agric., Govern. Res. Inst. Formosa, Spec. Bull. Agric. Exp. Station Formosa 51: 123 (1931) Alternaria macrospora var. sterculiae M.D. Mehrotra, Indian Forester 111(10): 823 (1985) Alternaria saccardoi Sawada, Special Publication College of Agriculture, National Taiwan University 8: 208 (1959) Cercospora lepidii Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. nat. Hist. 35: 140 (1884) Cercospora moldavica Săvul. & Bontea, Bul. Fac. Agron., Bucuresti 4: 3 [repr.] (1946) Dicaeoma brassicae (Mont.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 3(3): 468 (1898) Macrosporium brassicae Berk., in Smith, Engl. Fl., Fungi (Edn 2) (London) 5(2): 339 (1836) Macrosporium brassicae f. solani Fautrey & Brunaud, Revue mycol., Toulouse 16(no. 62): 76 (1894) Macrosporium brassicae f. resedacearum Roum., Revue mycol., Toulouse 16(no. 64): 8 (1894) Macrosporium brassicae var. macrosporum A.G. Eliasson, Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Afd. 3 22(no. 12): 18 (1897) Macrosporium herculeum Ellis & G. Martin, Am. Nat. 16(12): 1003 (1882) Macrosporium macrosporum (A.G. Eliasson) Sawada, Agr. Res. Rev., Cairo. Pl. Path. 47(5): 163 (1969) Polydesmus exitiosus (J.G. Kühn) J.G. Kühn, Ann. Sper. agr., N.S.: 165 (1858) Puccinia brassicae Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 6: 30 (1836) Rhopalidium brassicae Mont. & Fr., in Montagne, Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 6: 30 (1836) Sporidesmium brassicae Massee, Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew: 153 (1901) Sporidesmium exitiosum J.G. Kühn, Hedwigia 1: 91 (1855) Sporidesmium exitiosum var. solani Schenk, Voy. Alpes maritimes 8: 282 (1875) Sporidesmium onnii P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 18: 67 (1891)