Journal article
Tilletia puccinelliae, a new species of reticulate-spored bunt fungus infecting Puccinellia distans
Mycologia, Vol.102(3), pp.613-623
05/01/2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107526
PMID: 20524594
Abstract
A shipment of Fults alkaligrass seed (Puccinellia distans) grown in Washington state containing bunted florets was intercepted by quarantine officials at China's Tianjin Entry-Exit Quarantine and Inspection Bureau. The bunted florets were filled with irregularly shaped, reticulately ornamented teliospores that germinated in a manner characteristic of systemically infecting Tilletia spp. on grass hosts in subfamily Pooideae. Based on morphological characters and a multigene phylogenetic analysis of the ITS region rDNA, eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha and a region of the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II including a putative intein, the Puccinellia bunt is genetically distinct from known species of Tilletia and is proposed as a new species, T. puccinelliae.
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- Title
- Tilletia puccinelliae, a new species of reticulate-spored bunt fungus infecting Puccinellia distans
- Creators
- Xiaodong BaoLori M CarrisGuoming HuangJiafeng LuoYueting LiuLisa A Castlebury
- Publication Details
- Mycologia, Vol.102(3), pp.613-623
- Academic Unit
- Plant Pathology, Department of
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 99900547256501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article