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Alternaria brassicae
	Alternaria brassicae symptoms on cabbage
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Pleosporaceae
Genus:	Alternaria
Species:	A. brassicae
Binomial name
	Alternaria brassicae; (Berk.) Sacc., (1880)
Synonyms
	List Alternaria alliariae-officinalis; Săvul. & Sandu, Hedwigia 73: 130 (1933) ; Alternaria brassicae f. acanthi; Politis, Phragmat. Akad. Athen. 4: 40 (1935) ; Alternaria brassicae f. citri; Penz., Fung. Agrum.: 92, tab. 1206 (1882) ; Alternaria brassicae f. phaseoli; Brunaud, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest 4: 38 (1894) ; Alternaria brassicae f. tritici; Brunaud, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest 4: 38 (1894) ; Alternaria brassicae var. dianthi; F. Zimmerman, Ochr. Rost. 4(1): 9 (1924) ; Alternaria brassicae var. exitiosa; (J.G. Kühn) Ferraris, Fl. ital. crypt., Fungi 1(8): 521 (1912) ; Alternaria brassicae var. microspora; J.A. Elliott, Danish species of Alternaria & Stemphylium: 129 (1945) ; Alternaria brassicae var. macrospora; Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 4: 546 (1886) ; Alternaria brassicae var. putrefaciens; Preissecker, Fachl. Mitteil. Österr. Tabakregie 16: 14 (1916) ; Alternaria brassicae var. solani; Preissecker, Fachl. Mitteil. Österr. Tabakregie 16: 14 (1916) ; Alternaria exitiosa; (J.G. Kühn) Jørst., Meld. Stat. Plantepat. Inst. Oslo 50: 94 (1945) ; Alternaria herculea; (Ellis & G. Martin) J.A. Elliott, Am. J. Bot. 4: 472 (1917) ; Alternaria macrospora; (Sacc.) Mussat, in Saccardo, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 15: 43 (1901) ; Alternaria macrospora; (Sacc.) Sawada, Rep. Dept Agric., Govern. Res. Inst. Formosa, Spec. Bull. Agric. Exp. Station Formosa 51: 123 (1931) ; Alternaria macrospora var. sterculiae; M.D. Mehrotra, Indian Forester 111(10): 823 (1985) ; Alternaria saccardoi; Sawada, Special Publication College of Agriculture, National Taiwan University 8: 208 (1959) ; Cercospora lepidii; Peck, Ann. Rep. N.Y. St. Mus. nat. Hist. 35: 140 (1884) ; Cercospora moldavica; Săvul. & Bontea, Bul. Fac. Agron., Bucuresti 4: 3 [repr.] (1946) ; Dicaeoma brassicae; (Mont.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 3(3): 468 (1898) ; Macrosporium brassicae; Berk., in Smith, Engl. Fl., Fungi (Edn 2) (London) 5(2): 339 (1836) ; Macrosporium brassicae f. solani; Fautrey & Brunaud, Revue mycol., Toulouse 16(no. 62): 76 (1894) ; Macrosporium brassicae f. resedacearum; Roum., Revue mycol., Toulouse 16(no. 64): 8 (1894) ; Macrosporium brassicae var. macrosporum; A.G. Eliasson, Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Afd. 3 22(no. 12): 18 (1897) ; Macrosporium herculeum; Ellis & G. Martin, Am. Nat. 16(12): 1003 (1882) ; Macrosporium macrosporum; (A.G. Eliasson) Sawada, Agr. Res. Rev., Cairo. Pl. Path. 47(5): 163 (1969) ; Polydesmus exitiosus; (J.G. Kühn) J.G. Kühn, Ann. Sper. agr., N.S.: 165 (1858) ; Puccinia brassicae; Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 6: 30 (1836) ; Rhopalidium brassicae; Mont. & Fr., in Montagne, Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 6: 30 (1836) ; Sporidesmium brassicae; Massee, Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew: 153 (1901) ; Sporidesmium exitiosum; J.G. Kühn, Hedwigia 1: 91 (1855) ; Sporidesmium exitiosum var. solani; Schenk, Voy. Alpes maritimes 8: 282 (1875) ; Sporidesmium onnii; P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 18: 67 (1891) ;

Alternaria brassicae is a plant pathogen able to infect most Brassica species including important crops such as broccoli, cabbage and oil seed rape.^[2]^[3] It causes damping off if infection occurs in younger plants and less severe leaf spot symptoms on infections of older plants.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Species Fungorum - GSD Species". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b Nowicki, Marcin; et al. (30 August 2012), "Alternaria black bpot of crucifers: Symptoms, importance of disease, and perspectives of resistance breeding", Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin, 76: 5–19, doi:10.2478/v10032-012-0001-6
^ ^a ^b Ferreira, S.A.; Boley, R.A. (1991). "Alternaria brassicae". University of Hawaii. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-04.