Ophiostoma ulmi
Dutch Elm Disease
- Category
- fungi
- Primary role
- pathogen fungal
- Class
- Sordariomycetes
- Order
- Microascales
- Family
- Ceratocystidaceae
- Genus
- Ophiostoma
Fungi | Ascomycota | Sordariomycetes | Microascales | Ceratocystidaceae | Ophiostoma
External: GBIF #5254314
5 AI-consensus-verified claims across 1 interaction category.
Related entities
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pathogen pressure 5 claims
- This entity is the subject of pathogen pressure on Ulmus americana (American Elm) · effect: harmful
“the disease has killed the vast majority of yard, park, and street trees”
pathogenOf ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreedUnknown (Unknown) · History of Plant Pathology and Early Significant Plant Diseases (Chapter 1 Introduction) · p. 35 #6493122 - This entity is the subject of pathogen pressure on Ulmus spp. · effect: harmful
“Dutch elm disease, which is caused by a fungus, would not possibly occur without elm bark beetles”
pathogenOf ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pathogen pressure on Ulmus spp. · effect: harmful
“introduction into the United States of the fungi causing Dutch elm disease”
pathogenOf ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreedUnknown (Unknown) · History of Plant Pathology and Early Significant Plant Diseases (Chapter 1 Introduction) · p. 100 #6493292 - This entity is the subject of pathogen pressure on Ulmus spp. · effect: harmful
“ceratoulmin, produced by Ophiostoma ulmi in Dutch elm disease”
pathogenOf ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreedUnknown (Unknown) · History of Plant Pathology and Early Significant Plant Diseases (Chapter 1 Introduction) · p. 193 #6493729 - This entity is the subject of pathogen pressure on Ulmus americana (American Elm) · effect: harmful
“Dutch elm disease... have threatened to eliminate certain plant species from entire continents”
pathogenOf ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreedUnknown (Unknown) · History of Plant Pathology and Early Significant Plant Diseases (Chapter 1 Introduction) · p. 266 #6493860
Genus-level evidence
1 claim where the source named the organism only at the genus or collective level (e.g. Ophiostoma sp.) and did not determine the species. Listed separately because they apply to the genus, not specifically to Ophiostoma ulmi.
- biocontrol · Melanospora spp. (anamorphs Phialophora and Gonatobotrys) → Ophiostoma spp. · effect: beneficial
“Melanospora, whose anamorphs Phialophora and Gonatobotrys parasitize the mycelium of many fungi, including the important plant pathogens Ophiostoma, Ceratocystis, Fusarium, and Verticillium”
Unknown (Unknown) · History of Plant Pathology and Early Significant Plant Diseases (Chapter 1 Introduction) · p. 394 #6494265