teliospore


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teliospore

(tē′lē-ə-spôr′)
n.
A thick-walled, dikaryotic, often overwintering spore of most rust and smut fungi, which germinates to form a basidium.
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This has gained grounds for changing the prior trends set for the teliospores epidemiology.
COMPARATIVE VIRULENCE IN ISOLATES OF TILLETIA INDICA AND HOST RESISTANCE AGAINST KARNAL BUNT OF WHEAT
Germinations of teliospores were obtained on 1% water agar (WA) supplemented with the antibiotic tetracycline.
Smut fungi (Ustilaginomycetes and Microbotryales, Basidiomycota) in Panama
Anther-smut diseases cause both male and female flowers to produce anthers that are filled with fungal teliospores (the ovary becomes rudimentary in females).
Anther-smut disease in Silene dioica: variation in susceptibility among genotypes and populations, and patterns of disease within populations
3: Lucida drawings of Puccinia chrysanthemi (A) Urediniospores showing germ pores and echinulate ornamentation (B) Teliospores.
New Records of Uredinales (Basidiomycota) from Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Adjacent Northern Areas of Pakistan
alba) showed no obvious differences in teliospore morphology, pattern of teliospore germination, or sporidial size and shape.
An anther-smut disease (Ustilago violacea) of fire-pink (Silene virginica): its biology and relationship to the anther-smut disease of white campion (Silene alba)
pulverulent; TELIOSPORES ellipsoid or clavate, 40-60 x 22.
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF RUST FUNGI AND THEIR HOSTS IN PAKISTAN
The microscopic observation of the flower powder showed acute hairs, spherical, echinate pollen grains, teliospores of Puccinia malvacearum--a typical parasite of Malva sylvestris that is very common in plants in the Ciudad Universitaria and also appears in the observation made of Althaea officinalis- and parts of subepidermis and mesophyll with oxalate druses (Figure 9).
Identificacion de plantas medicinales de la Ciudad Universitaria (Madrid): nuevos datos sobre observaciones microscopicas
Based on material on Codiaeum imported from Ghana into the Netherlands, Boerema and Link (1979) determined that the aecioid sori and spores were actually telia and teliospores, thus they described this species in the teleomorph genus Dietelia.
Nuevos registros de royas (Uredinales) de Nigeria
Also, the American specimens contained more one-celled teliospores than the Asian specimens, which were far more likely to contain two-celled teliospores.
Daylilies. (Under Attack)(Cover Story)
Further, it converts the plant's developing seeds into "bunt balls"--encapsulated, powdery, black masses containing over 10 million teliospores, which are easily dispersed by wind and rain or mechanical harvest and transport.
Scientific Sleuthing Helps Clear TCK Trade Hurdles
After disease infection, mycelia grow within the developing rice kernel, eventually consume the endosperm, and produce numerous spherical black teliospores (Whitney and Frederiksen, 1975).
Heritability and Genotype x Environment Interactions for Discolored Rice Kernels
Infected plants produce flowers with anthers containing only fungal teliospores, and spores are transmitted from flower to flower by pollinators.
Impact of a pollinator-transmitted disease on reproduction in healthy Silene acaulis

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