Claim · model-written summary
Pennisetum glaucum pearl millet varieties Milkstar and Okashana were resistant to the rust isolates.
- Taxon
- Pennisetum glaucum
Cenchrus americanuse4 - Material
- Milkstar and Okashanae4
- Interactor
- rust isolatese4pathogen
- Outcome
- resistant to the rust isolatese4
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Verbatim
e4“Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet varieties Milkstar and Okashana, as well as 17 experimental lines) and S. elaeagnifolium (silverleaf nightshade or bitter apple) were resistant to the rust isolates”
Title
The life cycle of Puccinia digitariae on Digitaria eriantha and Solanum species in South Africa
Willem H. P. Boshoff; Alan R. Wood; Botma Visser; et al. Mycologia 2022. doi:10.1080/00275514.2022.2031493
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Telial isolates from Digitaria produced spermogonia and aecia on Solanum species in inoculation studies.
- Observation Aeciospores from Solanum species produced uredinia on Digitaria eriantha.
- Observation Solanum elaeagnifolium was resistant to the rust isolates.
- Observation The rust on Digitaria was confirmed as Puccinia digitariae by morphology and molecular phylogeny.
- Observation Puccinia digitariae teliospores overwinter on dormant Digitaria eriantha plants.
- Observation Aecia sporulate on Solanum species during spring and early summer.