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Studies on ustilago hordei.

University of British Columbia

Nutritional mutants of Ustilago hordel were used to demonstrate that parasexual recombination occurs within the host plant (Hordeum vulgare) prior to the production of teliospores. The nutritional mutants were also used to show that resistance of the newly-germinated seedling of H. vulgare to U. hordei and of subsequently formed tillers to infection was not correlated, and was probably not controlled by the same gene or genes. The application of gibberellic acid to H. vulgare was found to cause an increase in the overall tiller height of healthy plants by increasing the elongation of Internodal regions 0-1, 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4. There was no increased elongation of internodal regions 4-5 and 5-6. The healthy tillers of diseased plants showed no Internodal elongation when gibberellic acid was applied. Diseased tillers, which are usually shorter than healthy tillers, were also unaffected by the presence of gibberellic acid. The injection of both mating types of U. hordei into the young developing spike of a normally resistant strain of H. vulgare resulted in the production of diseased spikes. This would indicate that blockage to normal infection occurs at the time of seedling penetration, at the level of tiller primordia development, or at the time of spike primordia development.

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2011-05-10

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34419

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