Synchytrium endobioticum

Synchytrium endobioticum is a chytrid fungus that causes the potato wart disease, or black scab. It also infects some other plants of the genus Solanum, though potato is the only cultivated host.

Synchytrium endobioticum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Chytridiomycota
Class: Chytridiomycetes
Order: Chytridiales
Family: Synchytriaceae
Genus: Synchytrium
Species:
S. endobioticum
Binomial name
Synchytrium endobioticum
(Schilb.) Percival (1909)
Synonyms
  • Chrysophlyctis endobiotica Schilb. (1896)
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