Journal article
Tilletia vankyi, a new species of reticulate-spored bunt fungus with non-conjugating basidiospores infecting species of Festuca and Lolium
Mycological research, Vol.111(12), pp.1386-1398
2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104984
PMID: 18023991
Abstract
A bunt fungus, exhibiting a spore germination pattern unique to known reticulate-spored species of
Tilletia was found infecting plants in seed production fields of
Festuca rubra ssp.
rubra (red fescue) and
F. rubra ssp.
fallax (Chewing's fescue) in Oregon, and in seed lots of
Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass) from Australia and Germany. Teliospores germinated to form 20–40 uninucleate, non-conjugating basidiospores, and colonies derived from single basidiospores produced teliospores in culture. In inoculation studies using single basidiospore colonies, perennial ryegrass and
L. perenne ssp.
multiflorum (Italian or annual ryegrass) were infected. A phylogenetic analysis, based on ITS region rDNA, eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha, and the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II demonstrated that the fescue and ryegrass bunts are conspecific, and distinct from known species of
Tilletia.
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- Title
- Tilletia vankyi, a new species of reticulate-spored bunt fungus with non-conjugating basidiospores infecting species of Festuca and Lolium
- Creators
- Lori M Carris - Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430, USALisa A Castlebury - USDA-ARS, Systematic Botany and Mycology Lab, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USAGuoming Huang - Tianjin Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Tanggu, Tianjin 300456, ChinaSteve C Alderman - USDA-ARS, National Forage Seed Production Research Center, 3450 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USAJiafeng Luo - Tianjin Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Tanggu, Tianjin 300456, ChinaXiaodong Bao - Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430, USA
- Publication Details
- Mycological research, Vol.111(12), pp.1386-1398
- Academic Unit
- Plant Pathology, Department of
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Identifiers
- 99900546547201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article