TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thines, Marco
A1  - Buaya, Anthony Tumenez
A1  - Ali, Tahir
A1  - Brand, Thomas
T1  - Peronospora aquilegiicola made its way to Germany: the start of a new pandemic?
T2  - Mycological progress
N2  - Peronospora aquilegiicola is a destructive pathogen of columbines and has wiped out most Aquilegia cultivars in several private and public gardens throughout Britain. The pathogen, which is native to East Asia was noticed in England and Wales in 2013 and quickly spread through the country, probably by infested plants or seeds. To our knowledge, the pathogen has so far not been reported from other parts of Europe. Here, we report the emergence of the pathogen in the northwest of Germany, based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence. As the pathogen was found in a garden in which no new columbines had been planted recently, we assume that the pathogen has already spread from its original point of introduction in Germany. This calls for an increased attention to the further spread of the pathogen and the eradication of infection spots to avoid the spread to naturally occurring columbines in Germany and to prevent another downy mildew from becoming a global threat, like Peronospora belbahrii and Plasmopara destructor, the downy mildews of basil and balsamines, respectively.
KW  - Aquilegia
KW  - Downy mildew
KW  - Invasive species
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Quarantine
KW  - Phylogeny
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69762
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-697624
SN  - 1861-8952
N1  - Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 19
IS  - 8
SP  - 791
EP  - 798
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -