First report of the smut fungus Ustanciosporium appendiculatum in Australia
R. G. Shivas A F , A. R. McTaggart B , M. J. Ryley C , T. Scharaschkin D and C. F. Gambley EA Plant Pathology Herbarium, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.
B Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity, c/- Plant Pathology Herbarium, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.
C Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, PO Box 102, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia.
D School of Natural Resource Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia.
E Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.
F Corresponding author. Email: roger.shivas@dpi.qld.gov.au
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 5(1) 17-18 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN10007
Submitted: 14 September 2009 Accepted: 2 February 2010 Published: 3 March 2010
Abstract
Ustanciosporium appendiculatum was collected on Rhynchospora exserta from northern Western Australia in May 2009. The identification is based on morphological and sequence data which are presented for the first time. This is the first report of this smut fungus outside North America. Rhynchospora exserta is a new host species for this smut fungus.
Acknowledgments
ARM would like to acknowledge the support of the Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity, established and supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program.
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