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Download Download OPEN ACCESS The Journal of Threatened Taxa is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use of artcles in any medium, reproducton, and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Note First report of rust fungi Puccinia duthiae on Dichanthium foveolatum from India S.D. Pawar, S.V. Thite, A.S. Kadam & B.A. Kore 26 February 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 2 | Pages: 11354–11355 10.11609/jot.3630.10.2.11354-11355 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies and Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints contact <[email protected]> Threatened Taxa Report of Puccinia duthiae on DichanthiumJournal foveolatum of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 February 2018 | 10(2): 11354–11355Pawar et al. Note Among plant pathogens, First report of rust fungi Puccinia duthiae fungi are most important natural on Dichanthium foveolatum from India pathogens. The Uredinales, 1 2 3 4 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) commonly known as rusts occur S.D. Pawar , S.V. Thite , A.S. Kadam & B.A. Kore ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) on cultvated and wild plants 1,2,3,4 throughout the world. The rust Department of Botany, Yashwantrao Chavan Insttute of Science, Sadar Bazar, Godoli Satara, Maharashtra 415001, India OPEN ACCESS fungi (Basidiomycetes, Uredinales) 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], are biotrophs with complex life 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected] cycles producing pleomorphic (corresponding author) spores showing autocious or heterocious nature displaying evoluton of heteroecism. identfed as Dichanthium foveolatum (Del.) Roberty. Because of this nature they spread wide and adapt to (=earlier names Andropogon foveolatus, Eremopogon varied habitats. For their geographical distributon foveolatus) (Yadav & Sardesai 2002) (Image 1a). It is one primarily they depend on their hosts. Rusts are used as of the fodder grasses naturally growing on hill slopes. bio-control agents in the management of some weeds. Microscopic examinaton revealed that the pathogen is Material and Methods: In a contnued exploraton of Puccinia duthiae Ell. & Tracy and it is a new pathogen rusts on various hosts, specimens of grass were collected for host D. foveolatum causing rust. The rust taxon P. from various localites in Satara District (17.6914010N & duthiae (Puccinia amphilophidis Doidge) was established 74.0009380E), from November 2015 to February 2016. by Ellis & Tracy (1897). P. duthiae also infects species During the study period (winter) many localites were of Andropogon, Bothriochola from Australia, China, regularly visited (at 15 days interval) to inspect progress Tanzania and South Africa (Cummins 1971). in disease development and other life cycle stages of This pathogen had caused rust on the grass rust. Almost every specimen of host in the populaton Andropogon pertusus (=Bothricola pertusus) in at diferent localites was rusted. The symptoms were Saharanpur (Cummin 1971), Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh), observed on leaves only and not on any other aerial plant Dehradun (Utarakhand), Pune (Maharashtra), Phulguru, parts. The specimens were examined microscopically Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Dharwar (Karanataka) and and digital images were captured with a camera in Rajgir (Bihar) (Gautam & Avasthi 2016). A literature the feld and laboratory. The reference specimen was survey states that uredinial and telial stages of P. duthiae deposited at the Natural History Museum, Karlsruhe, on the new host D. foveolatum has been described for Germany (KR-M-0048297). the frst tme from Satara (Maharashtra) (Bilgrami et al. Result and Discussion: The pathogen caused typical 1991; Jamaluddin et al. 2004). Air born Urediniospores rust symptoms with orange and dark brown pustules disperse in grasslands and cause 90% infectons in the on leaves of grass (Image 1b). The host grass was feld. DOI: htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3630.10.2.11354-11355 Editor: R.K. Verma, Tropical Forest Research Insttute, Jabalpur, India. Date of publicaton: 26 Febraury 2018 (online & print) Manuscript details: Ms # 3630 | Received 05 July 2017 | Final received 22 January 2018 | Finally accepted 06 February 2018 Citaton: Pawar, S.D., S.V Thite, A.S. Kadam & B.A. Kore (2018). First report of rust fungi Puccinia duthiae on Dichanthium foveolatum from India. Journal of Threat- ened Taxa 10(2): 11354–11355; htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3630.10.2.11354-11355 Copyright: © Pawar et al. 2018. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this artcle in any medium, reproducton and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Funding: None. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: We specially thank Dr Markus Scholler (Germany, Karlsruhe) for identfying Puccinia duthiae, for depositng a specimen in herbarium KR and for providing a photograph of the specimen. We sincerely thank Dr. P.B. Chavan for providing literature on rusts. Thanks are also due to Principal of College and HOD of Botany Dept. 11354 Report of Puccinia duthiae on Dichanthium foveolatum Pawar et al. a b Puccinia duthiae Ell. & Tracy = Puccinia amphilophidis Doidge Aecia and spermogonia unknown. Uredinia and telia intermixed, uredinia more than telia. Uredinia mostly on abaxial leaf surface, hypophyllous, scatered between veins, erumpent, cinnamon brown, up to 1mm wide, paraphysate (Image 1c). Urediniospores oval, echinulate, stalked, apex usually darker, 19.3–28.4 µm, cinnamon brown, germ pores 4–5,equatorial, paraphyses capitate, mostly lemon yellow ,the wall usually thick in the stpe 96.5µm (Image 1d). Telia mostly on abaxial leaf surface, c d hypophyllous, scatered between veins, erumpent, blackish brown colour, up to 1mm wide (Image 1c). Teliospores two-celled, broadly ellipsoid, broad at apex narrowing at base, 33.9–41.5 µm x 27.5–30.5 µm, wallthick, smooth, chestnut brown, broader at apex than at sides, pedicel 45,0-68.8µm,yellowish to brown (Image 1e). References e f Bilgrami, K.S. Jamaluddin & M.A. Rizwi (1991). The Fungi of India. Part III (List and References). Today and Tomorrow’s Printer and Publishers, New Delhi, 798pp. Cummins, G.B. (1971). The Rust Fungi of Cereals, Grasses, Bamboos. Springer-Verlag, New York, 570pp. Ellis, J.B. & S.M. Tracy (1897). New species of North American fungi from various localites. Bulletn of the Torrey Botanical Club 24: 283. Gautam, A.K. & S. Avasthi (2016). First check list of rust fungi in the genus Puccinia from Himachal Pradesh, India. Plant Pathology and Image 1. Puccinia duthiae: a - habitat of host; b - symptom; Quarantne 6(2): 106–120. Fig.1 Pucciniac - arrow duthiae shows: a-Habit enlargedof uredeniahost , b- andSymptom telia; d, - c-transverseArrow showes secton enlargedJamaluddin, M.G. Goswami & B.M. Ojha (2004). Fungi of India. uredenia andof leaftelia, showing d–Transverse urediniosporesection and paraphysesof leaf showing (bar = 50µm); urediniospore andScientfc Publishers, Jodhpur, 324pp. paraphysese(bar - transverse= 50 µm), sectone-Transverse of leaf showingsection teliosporesof leaf showing (bar = 50µm);teliospores ( barYadav, S.R. & M.M. Sardesai (2002). Flora of Kolhapur District. Shivaji = 50 µm), f-f - teliosporeteliospore and paraphysesparaphyses (bar( bar = =40µm)40 µm) University, Kolhapur (M.S.) India, 680pp. Image 2. Herbarium image of Puccinia duthiae (KR-M-0048297). 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