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Definition of Genus cercospora

1. Noun. Form genus of imperfect fungi that are leaf parasites with long slender spores.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cercospora

Literary usage of Genus cercospora

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

1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"... 1869-'70, who put it in the genus Cercospora. Cooke, in Grevillea for June, 1875, describes the same species, giving it the name of ..."

2. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"... is the genus Cercospora in which over 450 species have been described, a large part from the United States. Here also belongs the smut of Sporobolus ..."

3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1896)
"In the form genus Cercospora there is very great variation in the length of the conidia, even in a single species, so that there is some uncertainty at ..."

4. Pathogens of Soybean Seeds: Bibliographyby Andrew Kalinski by Andrew Kalinski (1999)
"PR: 8610 TO 9109 Many members of the fungal genus Cercospora, including the soybean seed pathogène, kikuchii, produce the polyketide phytotoxin ..."

5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"... of which the genus Cercospora is an abundant representative. While it is not known that any correlation exists between the presence of this genus and ..."

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