Smut fungus
Chaos of Rearrangements in the Mating-Type Chromosomes of the Anther-Smut Fungus Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae
... Previous pulse-field gel electrophoresis estimated 11 autosomes for the haploid stage (Perlin et al. 2015), corre- sponding precisely to the 5 complete autosomes plus the 6 autosomes as two contigs split in their ...
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The first smut fungus, Thecaphora anthemidis sp. nov. (Glomosporiaceae), described from Anthemis (Asteraceae)
... These smut fungi produce yellowish-brown to reddish-brown masses of spore balls in specific, mostly regenerative, plant ...first smut record of a smut fungus on a host plant species in this ...
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First record of a smut fungus on Byblidaceae: Yelsemia lowrieana, a new species from Australia.
... Yelsemia lowrieana is only the second smut fungus that has been shown to produce spores that separate from the ruptured outer spore wall cf.. Kuntzeomyces ustilaginoideus Henn.[r] ...
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Extensive Divergence Between Mating-Type Chromosomes of the Anther-Smut Fungus
... In particular, a stronger empirical understanding of recombination suppression in fungi is needed so that gener- alities can be established and compared to the predominating concepts in the sex chromosome literature. ...
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Recent and Massive Expansion of the Mating-Type-Specific Region in the Smut Fungus Microbotryum
... The smut fungus Microbotryum lychnis-dioicae is a basidiomycete fungus in which dimorphic mat chromosomes have been reported, but the size, age, and evolutionary dynamics of the SR region remains ...
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Rice False Smut Fungus, Ustilaginoidea virens, Inhibits Pollen Germination and Degrades the Integuments of Rice Ovule
... flower-infecting fungus that forms false smut balls in rice ...false smut has long been considered a minor disease, but recently it occurred frequently and emerged as a major disease in rice ...
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Mating System of the Anther Smut Fungus Microbotryum violaceum: Selfing under Heterothallism
... structural heterozygosities, as observed in M. violaceum (56). These patterns of intratetrad mating and centromere linkage of sex-determining genes are not restricted to fungi but can also be found in other organisms, ...
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Mating and Pathogenic Development of the Smut Fungus Ustilago maydis Are Regulated by One Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade
... In the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis, pheromone-mediated cell fusion is a prerequisite for the generation of the infectious dikaryon. The pheromone signal elevates transcription of the pheromone genes and ...
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BIOCHEMICAL MUTANTS IN THE SMUT FUNGUS USTILAGO MAYDIS
... Haplo- phase sporidia can be handled like yeasts or bacteria, making possible the application of screening procedures and the quantitative treatment of growth, enzyme a[r] ...
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A Review of False Smut Disease in Rice
... false smut disease in rice, is a destructive pathogenic fungus of rice, which was first reported in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu state, India (Cooke, ...false smut fungus ...
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Cryptic diversity in the Antherospora vaillantii complex on Muscari species
... Vánky (2012) indicated that he studied the lectotype specimen from PC (he included the symbol “!” at the Antherospora vaillantii) selected by Lindeberg (1959). However, the examination of all materials from PC labelled ...
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Ustilago species causing leaf-stripe smut revisited
... Ustilago nunavutica was the second species that led Savchenko et al. (2014a) to assume that the U. striiformis species complex was polyphyletic. Comparing the ITS and LSU sequences of U. nunavutica with sequences from ...
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Physicochemical Property Testing of a Novel Maize Seed Coating Agent and Its Antibacterial Mechanism Research
... blank group as contrast, which marked as CK. After the Petri dish being treated with high temperature and high pressure, we put the culture medium into them, then we inoculate equal amount of maize large plaque bacteria, ...
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Learning through the waste: olfactory cues from the colony refuse influence plant preferences in foraging leaf cutting ants
... Leaf acceptance by foragers from the receiver subcolonies was evaluated in the same way, i.e. foragers were allowed to choose between untreated leaf discs of privet and firethorn, but choice tests were carried out 4 h ...
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Genomic analysis of bacterial mycophagy
... the fungus on the confrontation plates resulted in the accumulation of bacterial ...the fungus, which allowed us to interpret any changes in gene expression in one organism in terms of the other’s possible ...
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Abstract:
... in fungus seeded HDPE blends at Tmax has also provided useful information about the type of HDPE chains left for thermal decomposition after biodegrdation by selected ...in fungus seeded HDPE-Polymer blends ...
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Discussion of development processes in insect fungus association derived from the shaggy parasol fruiting on the nests of hairy wood ants
... It is quite possible that the fungi cultivated by some ant species do not fruit anywhere other than on abandoned nests, where tend‐ ing has ceased and chemical regime has altered. Laboratory tests demonstrated that ...
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Ustilaginoidea virens Infection of Rice in Arkansas: Toxicity of False Smut Galls, Their Extracts and the Ustiloxin Fraction
... false smut caused by Ustilaginoidea virens. Water extracts of false smut galls in Asia have been reported to contain ustiloxin toxins, cyclic peptide antibiotics that interfered with mi- crotubule function ...
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Molecular Insights into the Fungus Specific Serine/Threonine Protein Phosphatase Z1 in Candida albicans
... ability of C. albicans to infect mice, a function that can be rescued by the reintegration of a single copy of the Ppz1 gene. In addition, PPZ1 has also been shown to play a role in the morphological changes in C. ...
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Isolation of a Nodulisporium Species from a Case of Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis
... The main etiologic agents of infections of the CNS are Cladophialophora bantiana (Sacc) de Hoog et al., Ramichlo- ridium mackenziei Campbell et Al-Hedaithy, Exophiala derma- titidis (Kano) de Hoog, and Ochroconis ...
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