Bipolaris cookei

Bipolaris cookei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Pleosporaceae
Genus:	Bipolaris
Species:	B. cookei
Binomial name
	Bipolaris cookei; (Sacc.) Shoemaker, (1959)
Synonyms
	Bipolaris sorghicola (Lefebvre & Sherwin) Alcorn (1983); Drechslera cookei (Sacc.) Subram. & B.L. Jain (1966); Drechslera sorghicola (Lefebvre & Sherwin) M.J. Richardson & E.M. Fraser (1968) ; Helminthosporium cookei Sacc. (1886) ; Helminthosporium sorghi Cooke (1874) ; Helminthosporium sorghicola Lefebvre & Sherwin (1949);

Bipolaris cookei is a plant pathogen that affects sorghum, infecting leaf veins and lesions and causing target leaf spot. It is found in the United States, Sudan, Israel, Cyprus, South America, and India.^[1]

References

^ Nyvall, Robert F. Field crop diseases. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

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