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Agriculture · Q617

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 617

Q617

Powdery mildew include in

A.
Oomycetes
B.
Basidiomycotina
C.
Ascomycotina
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Powdery mildew includes in Ascomycotina.
Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants. Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of ascomycete fungi in the order Erysiphales.
Sexual reproduction is via chasmothecia (formerly cleistothecium), a type of ascocarp where the genetic material recombines. Powdery mildew fungi must be adapted to their hosts to be able to infect them. Within each ascocarp are several asci. Under optimal conditions, ascospores mature and are released to initiate new infections.