Villosiclava virens (Vv) is an ascomycete fungal pathogen that causes false smut disease in
rice. Recent reports have revealed some interesting aspects of the enigmatic pathogen to …

Rice production is subject to increasing environmental and social constraints. Agricultural
labor and water, which are key resources for rice production, illustrate this point. Nearly all …

Abstract Ustilaginoidea virens (Cooke) Takah is an ascomycetous fungus that causes rice
false smut, a devastating emerging disease worldwide. Here we report a 39.4 Mb draft …

The intensity of rice false smut disease in selected states of northwest and south India was
studied. In northern Indian states as a whole, disease incidence (percentage of false smut …

Rice false smut disease is an increasing concern for research and production, not only
because of the increasing epidemic occurrence in rice production, but also the intriguing …

Background Rice false smut caused by Ustilaginoidea virens has recently become one of
the most devastating rice diseases worldwide. Breeding and deployment of resistant …

Aims To characterize the geo‐distinct isolates of Ustilaginoidea virens for morpho‐molecular
and mating‐type locus diversity. Methods and Results Sixty‐one isolates of U. virens …

Plant diseases are one of the major constraints in achieving the potential yield. Rice, the
most important food crop in the world, is attacked by a number of fungal, bacterial and viral …

Rice false smut caused by Ustilaginoidea virens is a destructive disease in many rice-
growing areas. Mycoviruses have been described in many fungal species, but there is little …

Ustilaginoidea virens (Uv), the causative agent of rice false smut disease, infects developing
rice spikelets at the booting stage, and transforms individual grains of the panicle into smut …