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Definition of Genus Sclerotinia
1. Noun. Large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens.
Group relationships: Family Sclerotiniaceae, Sclerotiniaceae
Member holonyms: Sclerotinia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sclerotinia
Literary usage of Genus Sclerotinia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"... genera of this family, the genus Sclerotinia includes the most important
parasitic species. It is characterized particularly by the fact that typically ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"16) varying in size from under a millimeter to 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter.
About 10 families. The genus Sclerotinia contains several very destructive ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"These fungi represent the two sections of the genus Sclerotinia the members of
which have frequently furnished material for investigations designed to throw ..."
4. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1895)
"... and the villous exterior suggest the genus Sclerotinia. In Symb. Myc., Append,
ii., p. 65, Fuckel identifies his fungus with a species described as ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"... placed the fungus in the ascomycetous genus Sclerotinia, although its perfect
stage was not known until discovered by Norton" in 190'2. ..."
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