| Species/Subspecies: | Botrytis cinerea | ||||||||||
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| Categories: | Human pathogen; plant pathogen; of practical use | ||||||||||
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| Common name: | Gråmögel | ||||||||||
| Significance: | [Unclassified] | ||||||||||
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| Spec. Char.: | This fungus is necrotrophic, i.e. it lives on dead plant tissue after killing the plant itself. | ||||||||||
| Disease/effect: | Gray mold rot on plants in general and noble rot on grapes. Respiratory allergic reaction in hypersensitive grape growers. |
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| Comment: | If you let gray mold develop for a while on grapes and form so-called Noble rot, the grapes will release water and shrink, giving sweeter grapes and a different character to the wine. Sauternes, Spätlese and Tokay are wines that have been produced in this way. | ||||||||||
| Updated: | 2022-06-22 |
