AuthorMoore, W.C.
Year1959
TitleBritish Parasitic Fungi
TypeBook/Report
Source430pp, Cambridge University Press
IllustrationsNone
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

The equivalent of Ellis & Elllis’s "Land Plants" but for cultivated plants. Although now rather old, it still provides the most encyclopaedic and comprehensive account of the microfungi that grow on living material of cultivated plants in Britain.

The first section is a list of host genera with the fungal parasites afflicting each. This is followed by the parasites section which describes the history and occurrence of the disease. The work concentrates on listing diseases and their causative organisms. The reader is referred to the original publications for descriptions of symptoms or causative organism.

Many new pathogens have since arrived or been discovered and the synonymy is inevitably very dated, but this is still a useful work.

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentOOMYCOTAa group of mainly plant-parasitic fungiChromista
For identificationCurrentASCOMYCOTAspore shooters, ascomyceteFungi
For identificationCurrent[Coelomycetes]stem- and leaf-fungiFungi
For identificationCurrent[Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes]dematiaceous anamorphic fungiFungi
For identificationCurrent[Hyphomycetes]mouldsFungi
For identificationCurrentBASIDIOMYCOTAspore droppers, basidiomycetesFungi
For identificationCurrentPUCCINIALESrust fungiFungi
For identificationCurrentUSTILAGINOMYCETESsmut fungi and relativesFungi
For identificationCurrentSynchytriumwart chytridsFungi: Chytridiales: Synchytriaceae
For identificationCurrent[Fungi s.l.]fungi (in the broad sense)
CurrentTRACHEOPHYTAvascular plantsPlantae
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