The parasitic nature of viruses is a source of intense interest owing to the wide variety of potential hosts, which include humans, livestock, fungi, agricultural crops, as well as many others [1]. Viruses are differentiated by variations in properties such as size, capsid morphology, genomic composition, replication strategy, and host target [1, 2]. The family Totiviridae of dsRNA viruses is c...

Fungal cells deal with a wide variety of toxic environmental conditions during their life cycle. An important example of stress challenge to which fungi must cope is the high levels of ROS produced by the host during the oxidative burst. Ustilago maydis (D.C.) Corda is an important model system for plant pathogen smut and rust fungi. Genome wide analyses of this pathogen provide an insight into...

Three species of yeasts are taxonomically described for strains isolated from marine environments. Candida spencermartinsiae sp. nov. (type strain CBS 10894T =NRRL Y-48663T) and Candida taylorii sp. nov. (type strain CBS 8508T =NRRL Y-27213T) are anamorphic ascomycetous yeasts in a phylogenetic cluster of marine yeasts in the Debaryomyces/Lodderomyces clade of the Saccharomycetales. The two spe...

Comparing data produced from artificial inoculation experiments to evaluate smut susceptibilities of varieties, with observations on established variety trials and results from smut exposure trials, it was concluded that the varietal resistance to smut was best determined by natural infection methods. The smut susceptibility of about 50 varieties under test in the Lowveld has been determined. N...

This number of Mycological Research News features: In this issue; Fungi associated with insects or used for applied biocontrol ; Powdery mildews as invasive plant pathogens: new epidemics caused by two North American species in Europe; and Genetic differences among nuclei in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. This theme issue on fungi associated with insects includes ten papers on this topic. These ...

Most investigations of the use of fungicides for the control Results are described of field trials in which attempts were of Smut have been carried out with setts that were inoculated made to control sugarcane smut with fungicides. Smut was by dipping in spore suspensions, either before or after treatsuccessfully controlled in the plant cane crop when seedcane ment with f~ngicides.~~ s> 'Partia...

Abbas, H.K., Zablotowicz, R.M., Shier,W. T., Johnson, B. J., Phillips, N.A.,Weaver,M. A., Abel, C. A., and Bruns, H.A. 2015. Aflatoxin and fumonisin in corn (Zea mays) infected by common smut Ustilago maydis. Plant Dis. 99:1236-1240. Corn infected with Ustilago maydis (common smut) produces galls that are valued as a delicacy in some cultures. During a 4-year period, aflatoxin levels in asympto...

Head smut, caused by the fungus Sphacelotheca reiliana (Kühn) Clint, is a devastating threat to maize production. In this study, QTL mapping of head smut resistance was performed using a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population from a cross between a resistant line "QI319" and a susceptible line "Huangzaosi" (HZS) with a genetic map constructed from genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) data and compo...

Abstract The article describes a method developed for determining the degree of damage to wheat grain caused by smut fungi, which makes it possible determine its non-toxic level, increase measurement accuracy and reliability results obtained, ensure ease processing results, prevent further spoilage safety without deterioration in quality. Since reduces yield quality products, improving sanitary...

Identifying the genes underlying adaptation, their distribution in genomes and the evolutionary forces shaping genomic diversity are key challenges in evolutionary biology. Very few studies have investigated the abundance and distribution of selective sweeps in species with high-quality reference genomes, outside a handful of model species. Pathogenic fungi are tractable eukaryote models for in...