Elsinoë pyri
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Elsinoë pyri is a species of fungus in the family Elsinoaceae. It is a plant pathogen that grows on apple (Pyrus malus). First described scientifically by Nikolai Nikolaevich Woronichin in 1914 as a species of Plectodiscella,[2] the fungus was transferred to the genus Elsinoë by American mycologist Anna Eliza Jenkins in 1932.[3]
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Elsinoë pyri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Order: | Myriangiales |
Family: | Elsinoaceae |
Genus: | Elsinoë |
Species: | E. pyri |
Binomial name | |
Elsinoë pyri (Woron.) Jenkins (1932) | |
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