Venturia inequalis

fungus

Also known as: Venturia inaequalis

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In Ascomycota
parasitica), and apple scab (Venturia inequalis).
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In apple scab
caused by the ascomycete fungus Venturia inaequalis. Apple scab is found wherever apples and crabapples are grown but is most severe where spring and summer are cool and moist. The disease can cause high crop losses and is thus of economic import to apple growers.
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In plant disease: Pathogenesis and saprogenesis
bodies; the apple scab (Venturia inaequalis), for example, produces perithecia, flask-shaped spore-producing structures, in fallen apple leaves. Other fungi produce compact resting bodies, such as the sclerotia formed by certain root- and stem-rotting fungi (Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) or the ergot fungus (Claviceps purpurea). These resting bodies, which
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