Pythium debaryanum is a species of water mould in the family Pythiaceae. It is known as a plant pathogen on many kinds of wild and cultivated plants, including peanut, beet, eucalyptus, tobacco, and pine trees. The plants develop damping off, a disease state.[1]
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Pythium debaryanum |
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Photographs enlarged from portions of a motion photomicrograph, showing the method of cell wall penetration by Pythium hyphae.
A. — Shows hypha growing toward the potato cell wall.
B. — Shows hypha attached to wall and about to penetrate.
C. — The tip has just broken through the wall.
D. — The penetration is complete. Note the black line at the point where the hypha penetrates the wall. This may be due to a rolling up of the potato cell wall about the hypha or to a difference in refraction caused by compression of the wall. |
Scientific classification |
Domain: |
Eukaryota |
Clade: |
Diaphoretickes |
Clade: |
Sar |
Clade: |
Stramenopiles |
Phylum: |
Oomycota |
Order: |
Peronosporales |
Family: |
Pythiaceae |
Genus: |
Pythium |
Species: |
P. debaryanum |
Binomial name |
Pythium debaryanum
R. Hesse (1874) |
Synonyms |
Eupythium debaryanum (R. Hesse) Nieuwl., (1916) |
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