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Rice false smut (428) Print Fact Sheet

Summary

Common Name

Rice false smut. It is not a true smut, but classified in a different division of the kingdom fungi, the Ascomycota.

Scientific Name

Ustilaginoidea virens


AUTHOR Grahame Jackson
Information from CABI Ustilaginoidea virens (false smut) (2018) Crop Protection Compendium. (http://www.cabi.org/cpc); and False smut. Rice Knowledge Bank. IRRI. (http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/training/fact-sheets/pest-management/diseases/item/false-smut); and Graham KM (1971) Plant diseases of Fiji. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London; and from Ustilaginoidea virens. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustilaginoidea_virens). Photo 1&2 William M. Brown Jr., Bugwood.org. Photo 3  O.P. Sharma, Bugwood.org. Photo 4 Cesar Calderon, Cesar Calderon Pathology Collection, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org. Photo 5 Donald Groth, Louisiana State University AgCenter, Bugwood.org. Diagram David Condrey. grass flower with vestigial perianth or lodicules. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grassflower.gif).

Produced with support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research under project HORT/2016/185: Responding to emerging pest and disease threats to horticulture in the Pacific islands, implemented by the University of Queensland and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.



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