Phytophthora inflata

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| genus = Phytophthora

| species = inflata

| authority = Caros. & Tucker, (1949)

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Phytophthora inflata is an oomycete plant pathogen. It was first identified in 1949 in Michigan, USA causing a pit canker on elm trees. It was found in the United Kingdom in 1992 in the roots of Sambucus tenuifolium and Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), in 2003 it was found in a UK nursery infecting Rhododendron ponticum.{{cite journal|url=http://ndrs.org.uk/article.php?id=011002|title=First report of Phytophthora inflata on nursery plants of Rhododendron spp., Gaultheria shalon and Vaccinium vitis-idaea in Scotland|first=A.|last=Schlenzig|year=2005|journal=New Disease Reports|volume=11|issue=4 |pages=2|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3059.2005.01217.x |bibcode=2005PPath..54..582S |accessdate=22 June 2018|via=www.bspp.org.uk}} In the same year it was found in a nursery in Ohio also infecting Rhododendron.{{cite web|url=http://www.fedoa.unina.it/695/|title=First report of Phytophthora insolita and Phytophthora inflata in Rhododendron|first1=Testa|last1=Antonino|first2=Schilb|last2=Mikael|first3=Lehman|last3=Jeffrey S.|first4=Cristinzio|last4=Gennaro|first5=Bonello|last5=Pierluigi|date=22 June 2018|website=www.fedoa.unina.it|accessdate=22 June 2018}}