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Botrytis cinerea
Summary
Botrytis cinerea is a necrotrophic fungus that affects many plant species, although its most notable hosts may be wine grapes. In viticulture, it is commonly known as "botrytis bunch rot"; in horticulture, it is usually called "grey mould" or "gray mold".
The fungus gives rise to two different kinds of infections on grapes. The first, grey rot, is the result of consistently wet or humid conditions, and typically results in the loss of the affected bunches. The second, noble rot, occurs when drier conditions follow wetter, and can result in distinctive sweet dessert wines, such as Sauternes the Aszú of Tokaji or Grasă de Cotnari. The species name Botrytis cinerea is derived from the Latin for "grapes like ashes"; although poetic, the "grapes" refers to the bunching of the fungal spores on their conidiophores, and "ashes" just refers to the greyish colour of the spores en masse. The fungus is usually referred to by its anamorph (asexual form) name, because the sexual phase is rarely observed. The teleomorph (sexual form) is an ascomycete, Botryotinia fuckeliana, also known as Botryotinia cinerea (see taxonomy box).
"Botrytis" is derived from the Ancient Greek botrys (βότρυς) meaning "grapes", combined with the Neo-Latin suffix -itis for disease. Botryotinia fuckeliana was named by mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of another mycologist, Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel. Synonyms for the sexual stage are:
Botrytis fuckeliana N.F. Buchw., (1949)
Botrytis gemella (Bonord.) Sacc., (1881)
Botrytis grisea (Schwein.) Fr., (1832)
Botrytis vulgaris (Pers.) Fr., (1832)
Haplaria grisea Link, (1809)
fuckeliana de Bary
Phymatotrichum gemellum Bonord., (1851)
Polyactis vulgaris Pers., (1809)
Sclerotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Fuckel, (1870)
The disease, gray mold, affects more than 200 dicotyledonous plant species and a few monocotyledonous plants found in temperate and subtropical regions, and potentially over a thousand species. Serious economic losses can be a result of this disease to both field and greenhouse grown crops.
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