Volatile organic compounds produced by the fungus Muscodor albus inhibit or kill numerous fungi. The effect of these volatiles was tested on dormant and physiologically active teliospores of the smut fungi Tilletia horrida, Tilletia indica, and Tilletia tritici, which cause kernel smut of rice, Karnal bunt of wheat, and common bunt of wheat, respectively. Reactivated rye grain culture of M. alb...

in iran, common bunt of wheat is one of the most important diseases of wheat and using resistant varieties is the best strategy against it. in order to find resistance sources against the disease for effective breeding programs, determining races of the pathogen is critical. in this study, spikes infected with common bunt of wheat were collected from different farms of khuzestan province in 200...

The order Tilletiales (Ustilaginomycetes, Basidiomycota) includes six genera (Conidiosporomyces, Erratomyces, Ingoldiomyces, Neovossia, Oberwinkleria and Tilletia) and approximately 150 species. All members of Tilletiales infect hosts in the grass family Poaceae with the exception of Erratomyces spp., which occur on hosts in the Fabaceae. Morphological features including teliospore ornamentatio...

Dwarf bunt of wheat, caused by Tilletia controversa Kühn (TCK), is a destructive disease on wheat, as well as an important international quarantine disease. The traditional methods for diagnosis and detection of the disease were mostly based on the morphological characteristics, germination test of teliospores, and the symptom of disease in the field, resulting in a long procedure and low accur...