Filamentous microorganisms, such as fungi and oomycetes, secrete an arsenal of effector proteins that modulate plant innate immunity and enable parasitic infection. Deciphering the biochemical activities of effectors to understand how pathogens successfully colonize and reproduce on their host plants became a driving paradigm in the field of fungal and oomycete pathology. Recent findings illust...

The genera of Phytophthora and Pythium are two of the very destructive groups of plant pathogens in the world (Plaats-Niterink, 1981; Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996). They attack mainly mature plants and young seedlings, respectively, of forest, fruit, vegetable, flower, and ornamental species. These two groups of fungi are classified in the family Pythiaceae of the Oomycetes, which is excluded from t...

Saprolegnia bulbosa sp. nov. was isolated from floating and decaying twigs and leaves in El Gato stream, Partido de La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The distinctive characteristics of S. bulbosa are the product of smooth oogonia and predominantly contorted monoclinous, androgynous and diclinous antheridia. The oogonial stalks are usually bent, curved or once coiled; oospores are subc...

Subcutaneous mycoses in freshwater fish are rare infections usually caused by oomycetes of the genus Saprolegnia and some filamentous fungi. To date, Fusarium infections in farmed fish have only been described in marine fish. Here, we report the presence of Fusarium oxysporum in subcutaneous lesions of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Histopathologic evaluation revealed granuloma formation...

Saprolegnia species are oomycetes (watermolds), which are fungal-like filamentous eukaryotes, that are closely related to chromophyte algae (Baldauf 2003), and are capable of infecting multiple hosts (Sarowar et al. 2013). The amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and sequence data of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) methods were used to study the genetic diversity and relationship...