''Sclerospora graminicola'' is a plant pathogen infecting

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

and foxtail and

pearl millet Pearl millet (''Cenchrus americanus'', commonly known as the synonym ''Pennisetum glaucum''; also known as 'Bajra' in Hindi, 'Sajje' in Kannada, 'Kambu' in Tamil, 'Bajeer' in Kumaoni and 'Maiwa' in Hausa, 'Mexoeira' in Mozambique) is the most w ...

. ''Sclerospora graminicola'' was originally described by Saccardo in 1879 as ''Protomyces graminicola'' from infected ''Setaria verticillata''. Schroeter examined infected ''Setaria viridis'' and determined that this species should be placed in a new genus that he named ''Sclerospora''. ''Sclerospora graminicola'' primarily infects

C4 photosynthetic carbon fixation or the Hatch–Slack pathway is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in plants. It owes the names to the 1960's discovery by Marshall Davidson Hatch and Charles Roger Slack that some plants, when supp ...

grasses of the subfamily

Panicoideae Panicoideae is the second-largest subfamily of the grasses with over 3,500 species, mainly distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions. It comprises some important agricultural crops, including sugarcane, maize (or corn), sorghum, and swit ...

, possibly due to C4 photosynthesis allowing for a greater complexity of carbohydrate substrates.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7434194 Peronosporales Water mould plant pathogens and diseases Maize diseases Pearl millet diseases Taxa named by Pier Andrea Saccardo