@article{icrisat3444,
           title = {Tolyposporium penicillariae, the causal agent of pearl millet smut},
          author = {K V S Rao and R P Thakur},
           pages = {597--603},
            year = {1983},
          volume = {81},
            note = {The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr R J Williams, Principal Millet Pathologist, ICRISAT, for his continuing encouragement, inspiration and comments and suggestions on the manuscript},
         journal = {Transactions of the British Mycological Society},
          number = {3},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/3444/},
        abstract = {Sporeballs of the pathogen of Pennisetum americanum varied from circular to near-polyhedral (42-325 {$\times$} 50-175 ?m) and contained 200-1400 teliospores. Teliospores were mostly circular, 7-12 ?m diam. Max. germination of aggregated teliospores occurred at 30?C and different germination patterns were observed. Cultural characters on different media varied. The fungus grew well within 3-5 days on potato or carrot agar at 35?. Growth remained purely sporidial even after repeated subculturing. Sporidia were borne on promycelia, laterally and/or terminally and reproduced by budding. Sporidia were spindle-shaped, 8-25 ?m long. Individual separated teliospores seldom germinated. The use of sporidial inoculum in screening for smut resistance in P. americanum is discussed}
}