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Zizania latifolia andUstilago esculenta, a Grass-Fungus Association
E. E. Terrell,L. R. Batra +1 more
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A quarantine of the host and fungus is proposed to prevent possible disastrous widespread infection of American wild rices by the fungus.Abstract:
Zizania latifolia (Manchurian wild rice), native to eastern Asia, is often infected by the smut fungus, Ustilago esculenta, causing culm enlargement and failure to produce flowers. The enlarged infected culms have been used as a vegetable (gau sun) in China since the 10th century. The occasionally-used nameZ. Caduciflora is shown to be only a synonym. To facilitate identification of the host, a taxonomic key shows thatZ. Latifolia differs from and is fully distinct from the American species ofZizania. The nature and structure of the fungus and the history and cultivation of the vegetable are described. As a precaution we propose quarantine of the host and fungus to prevent possible disastrous widespread infection of American wild rices by the fungus.read more
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Cytology and ultrastructure of interactions between Ustilago esculenta and Zizania latifolia
TL;DR: Distribution of hyphae was uneven in plants;hyphae were mainly present in the swollen upper parts (jiaobai), the nodal regions of mature culms and old rhizomes and buds or shoots, and the electron-dense hyphal coatings were more conspicuous in the young buds or shoot and mature culm than in the jiaobais.
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Conservation of the Ustilago maydis effector See1 in related smuts
TL;DR: New data is presented on the conservation of See1 in other closely related smuts and experimental data on the functionality of See 1 ortholog in Ustilago hordei, the causal agent of barley covered smut disease.
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Biogas slurry use as N fertilizer for two-season Zizania aquatica Turcz. in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the plant growth responses and environmental impacts of applying biogas slurry to two-season Zizania aquatica Turcz, and found that the growth inhibition occurs when the N quantity in biogAS slurry was 2 or 2.7 times higher than that of mineral N fertilizer.
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Plant growth and photosynthetic performance of Zizania latifolia are altered by endophytic Ustilago esculenta infection
Ning Yan,Xiao-Qing Wang,Xiao-Feng Xu,De-Ping Guo,Zhi-Dan Wang,Jing-Ze Zhang,Kevin D. Hyde,Hai-Lin Liu +7 more
TL;DR: The results revealed that promotion of photosynthetic efficiency was probably mainly due to effects on non-stomatal processes by U. esculenta infection, which induced a decreased plant height, but significantly increased above-ground biomass production as compared to control plants.
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Dispersal Strategies of Microfungi
TL;DR: The significance of the new technology used in the recent studies on dispersal strategies is presented and the latest development of research on the dispersal process is covered: liberation, transporation, deposition, resuspension, and survival of fungal spores and other propagules from microscale to macroscale.
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