Taphrina is a
fungalgenus within the
Ascomycota that causes leaf and
catkin curl diseases and
witch's brooms of certain flowering plants. One of the more commonly observed species causes peach
leaf curl. Taphrina typically grow as
yeasts during one phase of their
life cycles, then infect plant tissues in which typical
hyphae are formed, and ultimately they form a naked layer of
asci on the deformed, often brightly pigmented surfaces of their hosts. No discrete fruit body is formed outside of the
gall-like or blister-like tissues of the hosts. The asci form a layer lacking
paraphyses, and they lack
croziers. The
ascospores frequently bud into multiple yeast cells within the asci. Phylogenetically, Taphrina is a member of a
basal group within the Ascomycota, and type genus for the subphylum
Taphrinomycotina, the class
Taphrinomycetes, and order
Taphrinales.[2][3]
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doi:
10.3732/ajb.91.10.1446.
PMID21652303.
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Bibcode:
2006Natur.443..818J.
doi:
10.1038/nature05110.
PMID17051209.
S2CID4302864.
^Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh., Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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