Specimen image via iDigBio · BY-NC-SA
Pyrenophora
Sign in to saveThe fungal genus Pyrenophora includes 108 species, including the following plant pathogenic species: Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora graminea and Pyrenophora tritici-repentis.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassDothideomycetes
- OrderPleosporales
- FamilyPleosporaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 87
- With media
- 37
- Family
- Pleosporaceae
- Collections
- NEB, FESI-UNAM, UTC, NY, BPI, ARIZ
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Canada
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
The fungal genus Pyrenophora includes 108 species, including the following plant pathogenic species: Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora graminea and Pyrenophora tritici-repentis.
Pyrenophora teres (has the teleomorph, Drechslera teres) makes up to 3 conidia per conidiophore. It infects plants with an appressorium. It grows bio-trophically in the first infected plant cell, but then switches to a necrotrophic growth mode. During necrotrophic growth, the fungus can only be found in the plant apoplast but not within plant cells.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyrenophora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.