Publications
| breeding for disease resistance in the major cool-season turfgrasses. | over the past several decades, breeding cool-season turfgrasses for improved disease resistance has been the focus of many turfgrass breeding programs. this review article discusses the dramatic improvements made in breeding kentucky bluegrass (poa pratensis) for resistance to leaf spot (caused by drechslera poae), stem rust (caused by puccinia graminis), and stripe smut (caused by ustilago striiformis); perennial ryegrass (lolium perenne) for resistance to gray leaf spot (caused by pyricularia ... | 2006 | 17061916 |
| stripe smuts of grasses: one lineage or high levels of polyphyly? | stripe smut of grasses, ustilago striiformis s.l., is a complex of smut fungi widely distributed over temperate and subtropical regions. the disease results in the shredding and death of leaf tissue following the rupture of elongated sori. nearly 100 different grass species in more than 30 genera are infected by stripe smut. during the last two centuries more than 30 smut taxa have been described from members of this complex. the present study attempts to clarify the taxonomy and phylogeny of st ... | 2014 | 25737599 |