Fig. 1From: Phytophthora: an ancient, historic, biologically and structurally cohesive and evolutionarily successful generic concept in need of preservationNumber of described and accepted Phytophthora species over time. Adapted from Brasier (2009). Data from pre-molecular era publications (Tucker 1931; Waterhouse 1970; Stamps et al. 1990; Erwin and Ribeiro 1996) include only those species currently accepted as valid speciesBack to article page