''Bremia'' is a genus of
water mould
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s in the family
Peronosporaceae
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Many species of Peronosporaceae are obligate biotrophic plant pathogens. They parasitise their host ...
.
The genus name of ''Bremia'' is in honour of
Johann Jakob Bremi (1791–1857), a Swiss 'Kunsthandwerker' (artist wood turner) and
entomologist
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from
Zürich
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.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Eduard August von Regel
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History
Formed in 1989 in the city of Most, Eduard began in a rented cellar as a manufacturer of photoetched brass model components. Fol ...
in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) Vol.1 on page 665 in 1843.
References
Peronosporales
Oomycete genera
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