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Tapesia acuformis

species of fungus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7684553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tapesia acuformis is the causal agent for a variety of cereal and forage grass diseases. The anamorph of T. acuformis was formerly known as the R-type strain of Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides. The W-type strain of P. herpotrichoides is now known as T. yallundae.

Management

Agropyron elongatum's genetic resistance to this disease is useful to introgress into wheat.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tapesia acuformis” as species of fungus. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7684553. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tapesia acuformis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.