White Rust - Albugo candida

White Rust is often categorized as a fungus, but is in fact an oomycete. Oomycetes are fungus-like, eukaryotic microorganisms.

It infects Brassicaceae species and cause diseases (white blister rust). I spotted this rust on a plant in a rural garden.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

This shot is crazy sharp!

FYI: I've used the taxonomy as seen here:
http://eol.org/pages/994936/names

I don't think it may be entirely accurate but I need to somehow fit this into our simplified 6 level system which is based on ITIS. Posted 7 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks!
  
  I was going to ask your thoughts on classifying it because it’s definitely not straightforward. So, thanks for figuring out how to make it work in the system. Posted 7 years ago

The White Rust

''Albugo candida'' is a species from family Albuginaceae; however, all the other species in this family are called "white rust." Like other water moulds which are plant pathogens, it is sometimes called a fungus, but is in fact an Oomycete. ''Albugocandida candida'' is an obligate biotrophic oomycete that infects Brassicaceae species and cause diseases . At the genome level, ''Albugo candida'' has a relatively smaller genome than other oomycetes.

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Similar species: Albuginales

Species identified by Christine Young