The Peronosporales are an
order
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of
water moulds (class Oomycetes) which can be
pathogenic.
Many diseases of plants are sometimes classified under this order, but are sometimes considered members of order
Pythiales. Some of these pathogenic protists include the organisms responsible for
potato blight,
eucalyptus dieback,
sudden oak death, and
blue mold. Further genetic studies may place these organisms more definitively in one order or another.
References
Heterokont orders
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