Microbotryum violaceum

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Microbotryum violaceum
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Microbotryum violaceum on Silene alba
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Microbotryomycetes
Order: Microbotryales
Family: Microbotryaceae
Genus: Microbotryum
Species:
M. violaceum
Binomial name
Microbotryum violaceum
(Pers.) G. Deml & Oberw., (1982)
Synonyms

Caeoma antherarum(DC.) Nees (1816)
Caeoma violaceum(DC.) Nees (1816)
Microbotryum antherarum(DC.) Lév., (1847)
Uredo antherarumDC., (1815)
Uredo antherarum var. antherarumDC., (1815)
Uredo antheraruma silenes-nutantis DC., (1815)
Uredo violaceaPers., (1797)
Ustilago antherarum(DC.) Fr., (1832)
Ustilago silenes-nutantis(DC.) Liro, (1924)
Ustilago violacea(Pers.) Roussel, (1806)Ustilago violacea var. silenes-nutantis(DC.) Durrieu & Zambett., (1973)

Contents

Microbotryum violaceum, also known as the anther smut fungus, was formerly known as Ustilago violacea. It is a basidiomycete obligate parasite of many Caryophyllaceae. But it has now separated into many species due to its host specificity.

Meiosis in M. violaceum produces a tetrad of four haploid meiotic products. Pairwise intra-tetrad mating can occur between these meiotic products. [1]

Examples

Microbotryum violaceum can infect and sterilize the plant species Silene latifolia by acting like a sexually transmitted infection.

References

  1. ↑ Hood ME, Antonovics J. Intratetrad mating, heterozygosity, and the maintenance of deleterious alleles in Microbotryum violaceum (=Ustilago violacea). Heredity (Edinb). 2000 Sep;85 Pt 3:231-41. PMID   11012726


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