Synchytriaceae is a chytrid fungus family in the division Chytridiomycota. The family was described by German mycologist Joseph Schröter in 1892. The type genus, Synchytrium, contains about 200 species of fungi that are parasitic on flowering plants, ferns, mosses, and algae. Synchytrium endobioticum causes potato wart disease, an economically important disease of cultivated potato.[1]

Synchytriaceae
Synchytrium (prob. S. papillatum) infection of Erodium cicutarium at Lookout Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Chytridiomycota
Class: Chytridiomycetes
Order: Synchytriales
Doweld
Family: Synchytriaceae
J.Schröt. (1892)
Type genus
Synchytrium
de Bary & Woronin (1865)
Genera

Carpenterophlyctis
Endodesmidium
Johnkarlingia
Micromyces
Synchytrium

References

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  1. ^ Obidiegwu JE, Flath K, Gebhardt C (2014). "Managing potato wart: a review of present research status and future perspective". Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 127 (4): 763–80. doi:10.1007/s00122-014-2268-0. PMC 3964305. PMID 24504551.
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