Claim · model-written summary
Puccinia digitariae teliospores overwinter on dormant Digitaria eriantha plants.
- Taxon
- D. eriantha
Digitaria erianthae6 - Interactor
- Puccinia digitariaePuccinia digitariaee6pathogen
- Outcome
- teliospores overwintere6
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Verbatim
e6“Puccinia digitariae has a macrocyclic, heterecious life cycle in which teliospores overwinter on dormant D. eriantha plants”
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
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- 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 Pennisetum glaucum pearl millet varieties Milkstar and Okashana were resistant to the rust isolates.
- 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 Aecia sporulate on Solanum species during spring and early summer.