FUNGAL DISEASES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN ARID
WOODLANDS OF ARMENIA
N. V. GRIGORYAN1
, A. S. ALEKSANYAN2
, S. G. NANAGULYAN
1
1 Chair of Botany and Mycology YSU, Armenia
2
Institute of Botany of NAS RA, Armenia
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This research indicated various fungal infections in different parts of several
medicinal plants that grown in arid woodlands of Vayots Dzor region of Armenia.
In this territory we investigate 289 species of medicinal plants belonging to 175
genera and 58 families. 39 species of microscopic fungi were found from 41
species of medicinal plants from this area. Among the taxa of fungi 18 species belong
to Ascomycota, 7 belong to Basidiomycota and 1 belongs to Oomycota divisions.
Golovinomyces genus from powdery fungi was the dominant for 11 higher plants,
the most common species of micromycetes in this territory is G. galeopsis (about
15.4% of the total), which causes of medicinal plants from the family Lamiaceae.
Keywords: Vayots Dzor region, medicinal plants, powdery mildew, hyphal
fungi, rust fungi.
