The Phytomyxea are a class of parasites that are cosmopolitan, obligate biotrophic protist parasites of plants, diatoms, oomycetes and brown algae. They...

Some myxogastrians and protostelians are aquatic or semi-aquatic. The phytomyxea are parasitic, living inside their plant hosts. Geographically, slime...

effector proteins to turn off a plant's defenses. Some slime molds in Phytomyxea cause important diseases, including clubroot in cabbage and its relatives...

plasmodiophores and their sister group Phagomyxida in their current class, Phytomyxea, as part of a polyphyletic phylum called Opalozoa, which at the time contained...

Cercozoa, but some trees appear closer to the Foraminifera. These are the Phytomyxea and Ascetosporea, parasites of plants and animals, respectively, and the...

was once referred to as a slime mold but was then transferred to the Phytomyxea group. Plasmodiophora brassicae exhibits two main forms within its life...

Domain: Eukaryota Clade: Diaphoretickes Clade: SAR Phylum: Endomyxa Class: Phytomyxea Order: Plasmodiophorida Family: Plasmodiophoridae Genus: Polymyxa Species:...

Plasmodiophora is a genus in class Phytomyxea. It includes the species Plasmodiophora brassicae, which causes the disease cabbage clubroot. Hittorf, Michaela;...

the pace for the disease cycle. S. subterranea is an obligate parasite phytomyxea that infects the below ground structures of the host. Infection leads...

brassicae, which was once considered a slime mold but is now put in the group Phytomyxea. It is the first phytomyxean for which the genome has been sequenced....