Proteomics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi

Table 1

Main plant pathogenic fungi causing disease in plants.

Phylum	Genus	Anamorphic stage	Hosts	Disease	Example
Chytridiomycota	Olpidium		cabbage	root diseases	O. brassicae
	Physoderma		corn	brown spot	P. maydis
			alfalfa	crown wart	P. (= Urophlyctis) alfalfae
	Synchytrium		potato	potato wart	S. endobioticum
Zygomycota	Rhizopus		fruits and vegetables	bread molds and soft rot	R. oligosporus
	Choanephora		squash	soft rot	C. cucurbitarum
	Mucor		fruits and vegetables	bread mold and storage rots	M. indicus
Ascomycota	Taphrina		peach plum oak	leaf curl leaf blister and so forth	T. deformans
	Galactomyces		citrus	sour rot	G. candidum
	Blumeria		cereals and grasses	powdery mildew	B. graminis ^1
	Erysiphe	Oidium	many herbaceous plants	powdery mildew	E. pisi
	Leveillula		tomato	powdery mildew	L. taurica
	Microsphaera		lilac	powdery mildew	M. penicullata
	Oidium		tomato	powdery mildew	O. neolycopersici
	Podosphaera		apple	powdery mildew	P. leucotricha
	Sphaerotheca		roses and peach	powdery mildew	S. pannosa
	Uncinula		grape	powdery mildew	U. necator
	Nectria		trees	twig and stem cankers	N. galligena
	Gibberella		corn and small grains	foot or stalk rot	F. graminearum ^1
		Fusarium	several plants	vascular wilts root rots stem rots seed infections	F. oxysporum^1
	Claviceps		grain crops	ergot	C. purpurea
	Ceratocystis	Chalara	oak	oak wilt	C. fagacearum
			stone fruit and sweet potato	cankers and root rot	C. fimbriata
			pineapple	butt rot	C. paradoxa
	Monosporascus		cucurbits	root rot and collapse	M. cannonballus
	Glomerella		apple	anthracnoses and bitter rot	G. cingulata
		Colletotrichum	many plants	anthracnoses	C. lindemuthianum
	Phyllachora		grasses	leaf spots	P. graminis
	Ophiostoma	Sporothrix and Graphium	elm	Dutch elm disease	O. novo-ulm
	Diaporthe			citrus melanose	D. citri
				eggplant fruit rot	D. vexans
				soybean pod and stem rot	D. phaseolorum
	Gaeumannomyces		grain crops and grasses	take-all disease	G. graminis
	Magnaporthe		rice	rice blast	M. grisea ^1
	Cryphonectria		chestnut	blight disease	C. parasitica
	Leucostoma		peach and other trees	canker diseases	L. persoonii
	Hypoxylon		poplars	canker disease	H. mammatum
	Rosellinia		fruit trees and vines	root diseases	R. necatrix
	Xylaria		trees	tree cankers and wood decay	X. longipes
	Eutypa		fruit trees and vines	canker	E. armeniacae
	Mycosphaerella	Cercospora	Banana	Sigatoka disease	M. musicola and M. fijiensis
		Septoria	cereals and grasses	leaf spots	M. graminicola
			strawberry	leaf spot	M. fragariae
	Elsinoë		citrus trees	citrus scab	E. fawcetti
			grape	anthracnose	E. ampelina
			raspberry	anthracnose	E. veneta
	Capnodium		most plants	sooty molds	C. elaeophilum
	Cochliobolus	Bipolaris	grain crops and grasses	leaf spots and root rots	C. carbonum and B. maydis
		Curvularia	grasses	leaf spots	C. lunata ^1
	Pyrenophora	Drechslera	cereals and grasses	leaf spots	P. graminea
	Setosphaera		cereals and grasses	leaf spots	S. turcica
	Pleospora	Stemphylium	tomato	black mold rot	P. lycopersici and S. solani
	Leptosphaeria		cabbage	black leg and foot rot	L. maculans ^1
	Venturia		apple	apple scab	V. inaequalis
			pear	pear scab	V. pyrina
		Cladosporium	tomato	leaf mold	C. fulvum
			peach and almond	scab	C. carpophilum
	Guignardia	Phyllosticta	grapes	black rot	G. bidwellii
	Apiosporina		cherries and plums	black knot	A. morbosa
	Hypoderma		pines	needle cast	H. desmazierii
	Lophodermium		pines	needle cast	L. pinastri
	Rhabdocline		pines	Douglas fir needle cast	R. weirii
	Rhytisma		maple	tar spot of leaves	R. acerinum
	Monilinia		stone fruit	brown rot disease	M. fruticola
	Sclerotinia		vegetables	white mold	S. sclerotiorum ^1
	Stromatinia		gladiolus	corm rot	S. gladioli
	Pseudopeziza		alfalfa	leaf spot	P. trifolii
	Diplocarpon		quince and pear	black spot	D. maculatum
	Talaromyces	Penicillium	fruits	blue mold rot	P. digitatum
		Aspergillus	seeds	bread mold and seed decays	A. niger ^1
	Hypocrea	Verticillium	many plants	vascular wilts	V. dahliae ^1
	Lewia	Alternaria	many plants	leaf spots and blights	A. alternata
	Setosphaera	Exserohilum	grasses	leaf spots	E. longirostratum
	Botryosphaeria	Sphaeropsis	apple	black rot	S. pyriputrescens
	Botryotinia	Botrytis	many plants	gray mold rots	B. cinerea ^1
	Monilinia	Monilia	stone fruits	brown rot	M. fruticola
	Diplocarpon	Entomosporium	pear	leaf and fruit spot	E. mespili
	Greeneria	Melanconium	grape	bitter rot	M. fuligineum
Basidiomycota	Ustilago		corn	smut	U. maydis ^1
			oats	loose smuts	U. avenae
			barley	loose smuts	U. nuda
			wheat	loose smuts	U. tritici
	Tilletia		wheat	covered smut or bunt	T. caries
			wheat	Karnal bunt	T. indica
	Urocystis		onion	smut	U. cepulae
	Sporisorium		sorghum	covered kernel smut	S. sorghi
			sorghum	loose sorghum smut	S. cruentum
	Sphacelotheca		sorghum	head smut	S. reiliana
	Cronartium		pines	blister rust	C. ribicola
	Gymnosporangium		apple	cedar-apple rust	G. juniperi-virginianae
	Hemileia		coffee	rust	H. vastatrix
	Melampsora		flax	rust	M. lini
	Phakopsora		soybeans	rust	P. pachyrrhizi
	Puccinia		cereals	rust	P. recondita
	Uromyces		beans	rust	U. appendiculatus ^1
	Exobasidium		ornamentals	leaf flower and stem galls	E. japonicum
	Athelia		many plants	Southern blight	A. rolfsii
		Sclerotium	onions	white rot	S. cepivorum
	Thanatephorus	Rhizoctonia	many plants	root and stem rots damping-off and fruit rots	T. cucumeris and R.solani
	Typhula		turf grasses	snow mold	T. incarnata
	Armillaria		trees	root rots	A. mellea
	Crinipellis		cacao	witches’-broom	C. perniciosus
	Marasmius		turf grasses	fairy ring disease	M. oreades
	Pleurotus		trees	white rot on logs tree stumps and living trees	P. ostreatus ^1
	Pholiota		trees	brown wood rot	P. squarrosa
	Chondrostereum		trees	silver leaf disease	C. purpureum
	Corticium		turf grasses	red thread disease	C. fuciforme
	Heterobasidion		trees	root and butt rot	H. annosum
	Ganoderma		trees	root and basal stem rots	G. boninense
	Inonotus		trees	heart rot	I. hispidus
	Polyporus		trees	heart rot	P. glomeratus
	Postia		trees	wood and root rot	P. fragilis

¹These phytopathogenic fungi are named in the text.