| characterization, in vitro culture, and molecular analysis of thecaphora solani, the causal agent of potato smut. | abstract the fungus thecaphora solani (syn.: angiosorus solani), the causal agent of potato smut, was cultivated in vitro for the first time. teliospores obtained from galls of infected potato plants were used to inoculate commonly used solid and liquid media. the teliospores produced two kinds of vegetative tissue depending on the nutrient status of the media. a very slow radial-growing, hyaline, and septate mycelium, as usually seen in most of the in vitro-cultivated filamentous fungi, was obt ... | 2004 | 18943109 |