relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/2443/
title: Effects of pollination on smut development in pearl millet
creator: Thakur, R P
creator: Subba Rao, K V
creator: Williams, R J
subject: Millets
description: In field and screenhouse experiments, pollination of inflorescences of three pearl millet F1 hybrids and two male-sterile (ms) lines with fresh viable pollen 5–8 days after inoculation with a Tolyposporium penicillariae sporidial suspension reduced smut severities significantly compared with inoculated, non-pollinated control plants. Smut development was not significantly reduced in a ms line following pollination of inoculated inflorescences with pollen of low viability. The implications of these findings in developing an effective screening technique for smut resistance and in controlling this disease in pearl millet are discussed.  
publisher: Blackwell Publishing
date: 1983
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/2443/1/JA_238.pdf
identifier:   Thakur, R P and Subba Rao, K V and Williams, R J  (1983) Effects of pollination on smut development in pearl millet.  Plant Pathology, 32 (2).  pp. 141-144.      
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3059.1983.tb01312.x