Claim · model-written summary
The potato smut fungus Thecaphora solani was cultivated in vitro for the first time.
- Taxon
- Thecaphora solani
Thecaphora solanie1 - Outcome
- cultivated in vitro for the first timee1
Verbatim
e1“The fungus Thecaphora solani (syn.: Angiosorus solani), the causal agent of potato smut, was cultivated in vitro for the first time”
Title
Orlando Andrade; Gastón Muñoz; Rafael Galdames; et al. Phytopathology 2004. doi:10.1094/phyto.2004.94.8.875
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Teliospores produced a very slow radial-growing, hyaline, septate mycelium in water agar medium after 30 to 40 days.
- Observation A white, sponge-like mycelial mass was obtained in HCM + 1% activated charcoal and on potato dextrose agar or malt-yeast-peptone media after 40 to 50 days under lab conditions.
- Observation The identity of teliospores and the sponge-like mycelial mass was corroborated by DNA fingerprinting and partial LSU rDNA sequencing.
- Observation The sexual cycle of the pathogen was completed under lab conditions, based on teliospore development on the sponge-like mycelial mass.
- Intervention effect Inoculation of an in vitro cv. Desirée potato explant with radial-growing mycelia induced a gall.
- Observation Phylogenetic analysis of LSU rDNA data of Thecaphora and other smut fungi confirmed the classification of the pathogen as T. solani.
