Pythium spinosum

{{Short description|Species of single-celled organism}}

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|genus=Pythium

| species = spinosum

| authority = Sawada, (1926)

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Pythium spinosum is a plant pathogen infecting a wide variety of crops. Hosts observed to be infected include rice in Taiwan, Primula, Impatiens, soil in Florida, Cucumis melo in South Korea (as damping off), and soybeans in Arkansas USA, China, and Indiana USA.

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{{cite journal | last1=Park | first1=Mi-Jeong | last2=Back | first2=Chang-Gi | last3=Han | first3=Kyung-Sook | last4=Park | first4=Jong-Han | title=Occurrence of Damping-off Caused by Pythium spinosum on Cucumis melo in Korea | journal=Research in Plant Disease | publisher=Korean Society of Plant Pathology | volume=22 | issue=3 | date=2016-09-30 | issn=1598-2262 | doi=10.5423/rpd.2016.22.3.190 | pages=190–193| doi-access=free }}

{{citation |type=journal |author=Anonymous |year=1979 |title=List of plant diseases in Taiwan(8303) |publisher=Pl. Protect. Soc., Republ. of China |pages=1–404 }}

{{cite journal | last1=Garzón | first1=Carla D. | last2=Yánez | first2=Jeniffer M. | last3=Moorman | first3=Gary W. | title=Pythium cryptoirregulare, a new species within the P. irregulare complex | journal=Mycologia | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=99 | issue=2 | year=2007 | issn=0027-5514 | doi=10.1080/15572536.2007.11832589 | pages=291–301| pmid=17682782 | s2cid=218590127 }}

{{cite web

| title=U.S. National Fungus Collections Database results

| website=Fungal Databases, U.S. National Fungus Collections

| date=2020-12-08

| url=http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases/new_allViewGenBank.cfm?thisName=Pythium%20spinosum&organismtype=Fungus

| access-date=2020-12-08

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