CLASSIFICATION KINGDOM          : MYCOTA DIVISION           : EUMYCOTA SUBDIVISION  : MASTIGOMYCOTINA CLASS               : OOMYCETES ORDER              : PERENOSPORALES FAMILY             : ALBUGINACEAE GENUS             : ALBUGO DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS OF ALBUGO The genus Albugo or Cystopus is an obligate parasite on a number of flowering plant. It is represented by 25 species parasitic on plants. Albugo candida a common species responsible for the disease “white rust” or “white blisters” on the members of family Cruciferae. Every part of the host plant is infected except the roots. White or cream coloured pustules develop on the surface of leaf. The stem become hypertrophied and the floral part become withered. Mycelium of Albugo is well developed, endophytic, branched, aseptate, coenocytic, hyaline hyp...