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Tilletia indica (karnal bunt of wheat )
Tilletia indica
karnal bunt of wheat
Neovossia indica
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Mexico, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil
Isolated outbreaks in SW USA: AZ, NM, TX, CA
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fungus
China
Restricted to wheat Triticum spp and Triticale spp
NEOVIN
Regulated pest in many countries, including the USA. The pathogen has been eradicated from NM, TX and CA.
1 Known Hosts
Triticum aestivum
wheat
Yes
NEOVIN-1,NEOVIN-2,NEOVIN-7
No direct evidence of seed transmission. Teliospores primarily external.
Yes
Visual examination, Seed wash, Size selective sieving, PCR
Size selective sieving
NEOVIN-1,NEOVIN-2,NEOVIN-3
Carboxin + thiram and Chlorothalonil (Goates, PC 2015); Disinfectants; Tri-X, SDS and Tween 20, Gupta, et. al. 2003. Hot Water Soaks (Beniwal, et.al. 2000)
NEOVIN-1,NEOVIN-6,NEOVIN-7,NEOVIN-4
NEOVIN-1
Tilletia indica In: Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc."
NEOVIN-2
Peterson GL, Bonde MR, Phillips JG, 2000. Size-selective sieving for detecting teliospores ofTilletia indica in wheat seed samples. Plant Disease 84:999-1007
NEOVIN-7
Gupta V, et. al. 2003. Detergent washing technique for the efficient extraction of teliospores of Tilletia indica from contaminated wheat seeds. Seed Science and Technology 31:95-101
NEOVIN-3
Inman, A, et. al. 2008 Survival of Tilletia indica teliospores under European soil conditions. Plant Pathology 57:290-300
NEOVIN-6
Beniwal MS, Pankaj Chawla, Rajender Singh, Chawla P, Singh R, 2000. Effect of soaking of bunted seeds in water on teliospore germination of Neovossia indica. Indian-Phytopathology 53:219-220.
NEOVIN-4
Goates, B.. 2015 Personal Communication. Univeristy of Idaho Moscow, ID USA
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