Nonsystemic bunt fungi - Tilletia indica and T. horrida: A review of history, systematics, and biology

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2006, Pages 113-133

  Carris, Lori M ^a   Castlebury, Lisa A ^b   Goates, Blair J ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Karnal bunt; Neovossia; Rice kernel smut; Tilletia walkeri; Tilletiales

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POACEAE; REVIEW;

FUNGI; PLANT DISEASES; POACEAE;

FUNGI; NEOVOSSIA; POACEAE; TILLETIA; TILLETIA CONTROVERSA; TILLETIA HORRIDA; TILLETIA INDICA; TILLETIA WALKERI; TILLETIALES; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33748944526     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143402     Document Type: Review

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