@article {doi:10.1094/PHYTO-99-7-0792, title = {Standardizing the nomenclature for clonal lineages of the sudden oak death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum}, journal = {Phytopathology}, volume = {99}, number = {7}, year = {2009}, note = {PMID: 19522576}, pages = {792-795}, abstract = {

{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.

}, doi = {10.1094/PHYTO-99-7-0792}, url = {http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PHYTO-99-7-0792}, author = {Gr{\"u}nwald, Niklaus J. and Goss, Erica M. and Ivors, Kelly and Garbelotto, Matteo and Martin, Frank N. and Prospero, Simone and Everett Hansen and Peter J.M. Bonants and Hamelin, Richard C. and Chastagner, Gary and Werres, Sabine and Rizzo, David M. and Abad, Gloria and Beales, Paul and Bilodeau, Guillaume J. and Cheryl L. Blomquist and Brasier,Clive and Bri{\`e}re, Stephan C. and Chandelier, Anne and Davidson, Jennifer M. and Denman,Sandra and Elliott, Marianne and Susan J. Frankel and Goheen, Ellen M. and de Gruyter, Hans and Heungens, Kurt and James, Delano and Kanaskie, Alan and Michael G McWilliams and Man in {\textquoteleft}t Veld, Willem and Moralejo, Eduardo and Osterbauer, Nancy K. and Palm, Mary E. and Parke, Jennifer L. and Sierra, Ana Maria Perez and Shamoun, Simon F. and Shishkoff, Nina and Tooley, Paul W. and Vettraino, Anna Maria and Webber,Joan and Timothy L. Widmer} }