%0 Journal Article %J Phytopathology %D 2009 %T Standardizing the nomenclature for clonal lineages of the sudden oak death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum %A Grünwald, Niklaus J. %A Goss, Erica M. %A Ivors, Kelly %A Garbelotto, Matteo %A Martin, Frank N. %A Prospero, Simone %A Everett Hansen %A Peter J.M. Bonants %A Hamelin, Richard C. %A Chastagner, Gary %A Werres, Sabine %A Rizzo, David M. %A Abad, Gloria %A Beales, Paul %A Bilodeau, Guillaume J. %A Cheryl L. Blomquist %A Brasier,Clive %A Brière, Stephan C. %A Chandelier, Anne %A Davidson, Jennifer M. %A Denman,Sandra %A Elliott, Marianne %A Susan J. Frankel %A Goheen, Ellen M. %A de Gruyter, Hans %A Heungens, Kurt %A James, Delano %A Kanaskie, Alan %A Michael G McWilliams %A Man in ‘t Veld, Willem %A Moralejo, Eduardo %A Osterbauer, Nancy K. %A Palm, Mary E. %A Parke, Jennifer L. %A Sierra, Ana Maria Perez %A Shamoun, Simon F. %A Shishkoff, Nina %A Tooley, Paul W. %A Vettraino, Anna Maria %A Webber,Joan %A Timothy L. Widmer %X

{Phytophthora ramorum, the causal agent of sudden oak death and ramorum blight, is known to exist as three distinct clonal lineages which can only be distinguished by performing molecular marker-based analyses. However, in the recent literature there exists no consensus on naming of these lineages. Here we propose a system for naming clonal lineages of P. ramorum based on a consensus established by the P. ramorum research community. Clonal lineages are named with a two letter identifier for the continent on which they were first found (e.g.

%B Phytopathology %V 99 %P 792-795 %G eng %U http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PHYTO-99-7-0792 %R 10.1094/PHYTO-99-7-0792