''Bremia'' is a genus of
water mould
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s in the family
Peronosporaceae
Peronosporaceae are a family of water moulds that contains 21 genera, comprising more than 600 species. Most of them are called downy mildews.
Peronosporaceae are obligate biotrophic plant pathogens. They parasitise their host plants as an inte ...
.
The genus name of ''Bremia'' is in honour of
Johann Jakob Bremi (1791 - 1857), a Swiss 'Kunsthandwerker' (artist wood turner) and
entomologist
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from
Zürich
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.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Eduard August von Regel
Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultural ...
in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) Vol.1 on page 665 in 1843.
References
Peronosporales
Water mould genera
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