Pleospora bjoerlingii Byford
(Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism)

Interactions where Pleospora bjoerlingii is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead stem			Beta trigyna	Caucasian Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta trigyna/	Beta trigyna	Caucasian beet		dead	stem
pseudothecium		pseudothecium is saprobic on dead stem			Beta trigyna	Caucasian Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)				pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta trigyna/	Beta trigyna	Caucasian beet		dead	stem
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead stem			Beta vulgaris	Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris/	Beta vulgaris	beet		dead	stem
pseudothecium		pseudothecium is saprobic on dead stem			Beta vulgaris	Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)				pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris/	Beta vulgaris	beet		dead	stem
		infects and damages shrivlled, blackened stem of seedling			Beta vulgaris ssp cicla	Foliage Beet, Leaf Beet, Mangold	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla/	Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla	foliage beet, leaf beet, mangold		shrivlled, blackened	stem	seedling
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live root			Beta vulgaris ssp cicla	Foliage Beet, Leaf Beet, Mangold	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla/	Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla	foliage beet, leaf beet, mangold		live	root
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Beta vulgaris ssp cicla	Foliage Beet, Leaf Beet, Mangold	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla/	Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla	foliage beet, leaf beet, mangold		live	leaf
		infects and damages shrivlled, blackened stem of seedling			Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var vulgaris	Beetroot, Red Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var. vulgaris/	Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var. vulgaris	beetroot, red beet		shrivlled, blackened	stem	seedling	Major
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live root			Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var vulgaris	Beetroot, Red Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var. vulgaris/	Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var. vulgaris	beetroot, red beet		live	root		Major
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var vulgaris	Beetroot, Red Beet	Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Pleospora bjoerlingii/	Pleospora bjoerlingii	beetroot and mangold black leg and dry rot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Amaranthaceae/Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var. vulgaris/	Beta vulgaris ssp vulgaris var. vulgaris	beetroot, red beet		live	leaf		Major

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

Pleospora bjoerlingii (Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Pleospora bjoerlingii (Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Pleospora bjoerlingii (Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism)
Genus	Pleospora (a genus of ascomycetes)
Family	PLEOSPORACEAE (a family of ascomycetes)
Order	PLEOSPORALES (an order of ascomycetes and lichens)
Subclass	DOTHIDEOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of fungi)
Class	DOTHIDEOMYCETES (a class of ascomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Pleospora bjoerlingii is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Pleospora bjoerlingii (Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism)

Pleospora bjoerlingii (Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Pleospora
(a genus of ascomycetes)

PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Pleospora bjoerlingii (Beetroot and Mangold Black Leg and Dry Rot - causative organism):

Pleospora
(a genus of ascomycetes)

PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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