HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2019, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (9): 5-8.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2019.09.001

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Progress and prospective of Villosiclava virens infection mechanism

WANG Zuo-qian, YANG Xiao-lin, LYU Liang, YUAN Bin, CHANG Xiang-qian, ZHANG Shu   

  1. Institute of Plant Protection and Soil Science,Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Hubei Key Laboratory for Crop Diseases,Insect Pests and Weeds Control/Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Central China,China Ministry of Agriculture,Wuhan 430064,China
  • Received:2018-12-26 Online:2019-05-10 Published:2019-12-05

Abstract: Rice false smut has become one of the most severe rice disease in China. At present, some progress has been made in the study of rice false smut. There are still some puzzles about infection site and infection mechanism in Villosiclava virens. Laser confocal microscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have helped to provide the specific description of infection process of rice false smut in spikelet. However, there were no molecular evidence about the contribution of systemic infection, seedling and seed infection in life cycle. The problems existing in the research of rice false smut were discussed and analyzed. At the same time, the main methods of prevention and control of rice false smut and the methods of pathogen surveillance were summarized.

Key words: rice false smut, infection site, infection mechanism, biotrophic infection

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