Article
Effects of varying levels of cleistogamy on natural smut infection in oats
2022-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Smut of oats, caused by Ustilago avenae, is an important disease in organic seed production and resistance breeding via seed inoculation is an elaborate routine in organic oat breeding. The life cycle of smuts is known to depend on open flowers, for example, spores of Ustilago ssp. need to settle inside the flower to start a next life cycle. Increasing the level of cleistogamy as a way to avoid initial infections...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 79de0f7c-41b5-5e2b-9796-526f44e58995
- DOI
- 10.1002/csc2.20688
