Pythium irregulare
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| Pythium irregulare Buisman, (1927)
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Pythium irregulare is a soil borne oomycete plant pathogen[1]. Oomycetes, also known as "water molds", are fungal-like protists. They are fungal-like because of their similar life cycles, but differ in that the resting stage is diploid, they have coenocytic hyphae, a larger genome, cellulose in their cell walls instead of chitin, and contain zoospores (asexual motile spores) and oospores (sexual resting spores)[2].
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- ^ Katawczik, Melanie. "Pythium irregulare". projects.ncsu.edu. North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Plant Pathology. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
- ^ Judelson, Howard S.; Blanco, Flavio A. (2005-01-01). "The spores of Phytophthora: weapons of the plant destroyer". Nature Reviews Microbiology. 3 (1): 47–58. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1064. ISSN 1740-1526.
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