Cultural, Molecular and Genetic Variability of Ustilaginoidea virens Causing Rice False Smut Disease
Y. Chandra Sekhar, A. Kamalakannan, C. Gopalakrishnan, S. Panneerselvam, S. Rajesh & P. Santhosh Ganapati · International Journal of Plant & Soil Science · 2022
Rice false smut disease is caused by Ustilaginoidea virens, an ascomycetous fungi. Thirty isolates of U. virens showed well defined colonies on potato sucrose medium (PSA). The maximum colony diameter was found to be 85.68 mm with a growth rate of 2.85 mm in the UV23 isolate and...
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10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i232467