Gloeocercospora sorghi

Taxobox
name = "Gloeocercospora sorghi"
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Ascomycota
classis = Ascomycetes
subclassis = Incertae sedis
ordo = Incertae sedis
familia = Incertae sedis
genus = "Gloeocercospora"
species = "G. sorghi"
binomial = "Gloeocercospora sorghi"
binomial_authority = D.C. Bain & Edgerton, (1943)

Gloeocercospora sorghi is a plant pathogen and causal agent of zonate leaf spot also known as copper spot on "Sorghum bicolor" (though it can infect several other hosts). It is used as a bioherbicide.

External links

* [http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp Index Fungorum]
* [http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases USDA ARS Fungal Database]

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