Definition of Genus Peronospora

1. Noun. Genus of destructive downy mildews.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Peronospora

genus Pereskia
genus Pericallis
genus Peridinium
genus Perilla
genus Periophthalmus
genus Peripatopsis
genus Peripatus
genus Periplaneta
genus Periploca
genus Perisoreus
genus Peristedion
genus Pernis
genus Perodicticus
genus Perognathus
genus Peromyscus
genus Peronospora (current term)
genus Persea
genus Persoonia
genus Pertusaria
genus Petasites
genus Petaurista
genus Petaurus
genus Petrocoptis
genus Petrogale
genus Petromyzon
genus Petroselinum
genus Petteria
genus Petunia
genus Peziza
genus Pezophaps

Literary usage of Genus Peronospora

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its by Powys-land Club (1879)
"THE genus Peronospora. (TO WHICH THE POTATO DISEASE BELONGS) AND ITS ALLIES. ... THE order in which the genus Peronospora occurs (in which also the potato ..."

2. Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of by University of Wisconsin, Agricultural Experiment Station (1884)
"The genus Peronospora, in which the onion mold is now placed, produces two kinds of spores, viz.: the summer conidia, which have been described for this ..."

3. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"... conidia are pale gray or pale lavender in colour, and are very large in comparison with the conidia belonging to other species of the genus Peronospora. ..."

4. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"... conidia are pale gray or pale lavender in colour, and are very large in comparison with the conidia belonging to other species of the genus Peronospora. ..."

5. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"The germination of the oospores takes place in some species of the genus Peronospora by the formation of a germinating tube, which soon gives rise to a ..."

6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1889)
"Only the following species (all of the genus Peronospora, it will be noticed) have been found passing the winter ..."

7. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1873)
"The minute fungus belongs to the genus Peronospora, and has received the name Peronospora infestans, Mont. Another method of reproduction has been noticed ..."

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