Mycologia (2010) 102, 613-623

Xiaodong Bao, Lori M. Carris, Guoming Huang, Jiafeng Luo, Yueting Liu and Lisa A. Castlebury (2010)
Tilletia puccinelliae, a new species of reticulate-spored bunt fungus infecting Puccinellia distans
Mycologia 102 (3), 613-623
Abstract: A shipment of Fults alkaligrass seed (Puccinellia distans) grown in Washington state containing bunted florets was intercepted by quarantine officials at China's Tianjin Entry-Exit Quarantine and Inspection Bureau. The bunted florets were filled with irregularly shaped, reticulately ornamented teliospores that germinated in a manner characteristic of systemically infecting Tilletia spp. on grass hosts in subfamily Pooideae. Based on morphological characters and a multigene phylogenetic analysis of the ITS region rDNA, eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha and a region of the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II including a putative intein, the Puccinellia bunt is genetically distinct from known species of Tilletia and is proposed as a new species, T. puccinelliae.
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Database assignments for author(s): Lori M. Carris, Lisa A. Castlebury

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes
identification/taxonomy

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Tilletia puccinelliae	Alkali grass (Puccinellia)	U.S.A. (NW)