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Common scab, a plant bacterial disease caused by Streptomyces species; Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease of plants, e.g., grain crops (especially wheat and oats), golf course grass, caused by the several species of Fusarium; Pear scab, a pear fungal disease caused by Venturia pirina or Fusicladium pyrorum
The disease caused by Sphaceloma arachidis is commonly known as Peanut Scab or Groundnut Scab. As seen by the name, it affects Arachis hypogaea or peanuts. [3] Peanuts are grown in warm areas, which determines where this disease is normally found. [4] It has created difficulties in countries such as Brazil and Argentina that are big peanut ...
The resulting disease is known as avocado scab for the symptoms which are present on the fruit of the avocado tree. It is believed that the disease developed in Florida in the early twentieth century and is related to citrus scab, Elsinoe fawcetti . [ 2 ]
Scabies (/ ˈ s k eɪ b iː z, ˈ s k eɪ b i iː z /; [10] also sometimes known as the seven-year itch) [1] is a contagious human skin infestation by the tiny (0.2–0.45 mm) mite Sarcoptes scabiei, [1] [3] variety hominis.
Fusarium ear blight (FEB) (also called Fusarium head blight, FHB, or scab), is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale. [1] FEB is caused by a range of Fusarium fungi, which infects the heads of the crop, reducing grain yield.
Lichen simplex chronicus (LSC) is thick leathery skin with exaggerated skin markings caused by sudden itching and excessive rubbing and scratching. [1] It generally results in small bumps, patches, scratch marks and scale. [1]
Powdery scab is a disease of potato tubers. [1] It is caused by the cercozoan Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea and is widespread in potato growing countries. [2] [3] Symptoms of powdery scab include small lesions in the early stages of the disease, progressing to raised pustules containing a powdery mass.
Synchytrium endobioticum is a chytrid fungus that causes the potato wart disease, or black scab. [1] It also infects some other plants of the genus Solanum , though potato is the only cultivated host .