4 days ago · The invasive plant pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, causes sudden oak death, which has killed millions of trees, and diseases that affect common nursery plants.

Phytophthora ramorum is the oomycete known to cause the disease sudden oak death (SOD). The disease kills oak and other species of trees and has had devastating effects on the oak populations …

Phytophthora ramorum is a highly destructive, algae-like organism called a water mould. It causes extensive damage and death to more than 150 plant species, including some forest species.

Since the mid-1990s, though, Phytophthora has been attacking forest trees along the West Coast, with the pathogen P. ramorum, also known as "sudden oak death" (SOD).

Phytophthora ramorum is an oomycete plant pathogen classified in the kingdom Stramenopila. P. ramorum is the causal agent of sudden oak death on coast live oak and tanoak as well as ramorum …

Phytophthora ramorum was inadvertently introduced to California forests on nursery stock and, as an invasive species, is quarantined in over 60 countries with restrictions enforced on shipments of …

Jul 11, 2024 · This review will examine P. ramorum’s transmission and genetic adaptability, as well as treatment strategies against both P. ramorum and its host species.

The water mold Phytophthora ramorum causes the plant diseases known as ramorum leaf blight, ramorum dieback, and sudden oak death. Plant pathologists first observed Phytophthora ramorum in …

Phytophthora ramorum is a fungal-like organism that causes the death of a wide range of trees and shrubs. The greatest impact so far has been on larch plantations, leading to thousands of hectares of …

Sudden oak death is caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a funguslike organism. Despite the name, sudden oak death doesn’t kill all oaks and can also infect non-oak plants.