Botryotinia

Botryotinia
Grey mould (B. cinerea) on tomato fruit
Scientific Classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Subphylum:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Leotiomycetes
Order:	Helotiales
Family:	Sclerotiniceae
Genus:	Botryotinia

Plant diseases caused by Botryotinia species appear primarily as blossom blights and fruit rots but also as leaf spots and bulb rots in the field and in stored products.

Important species

Important species of Botryotinia:

• B. allii
  • Neck rot
• B. cinerea
  • Chocolate spot, grey mould and neck rot, damping off in seedlings and petal blight in several plants, especially globe artichokes
• B. fabae
  • Chocolate spot
• B. squamosa
  • Neck rot

Examples

• 
  Onion (B. allii)
• 
  French bean (B. cinerea)
• 
  Strawberry (B. cinerea)
• 
  Tomato (B. cinerea)
• 
  broad bean (B. fabae)

References

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