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Puccinia duthiei Ellis & Tracy: a new host record on
Chrysopogon velutinus from India
Suhas Kundlik Kamble
Department of Botany, Dahiwadi College, Dahiwadi, Satara, Maharashtra 415508, India.
suhaskamble272@gmail.com
Dicaeoma duthiei (Ellis & Tracy) Sydow [as ‘duthiae’],
Annls mycol. 20(3/4):117 (1922)
Uredo duthiei (Ellis & Tracy) Pardo-Card. [as
‘duthiae’], Revista, Facultad Nacional de Agronomia
Medellin 56(2): 2080 (2003)
Chrysopogon (Trin.) belongs to (Family Poaceae)
and is represented by 23 species in India (Sunil et al.
2017). Rust disease is caused by pathogenic fungi of the
order Pucciniales, which comprises about 168 genera
and approximately 7,000 species of rusts (Mohanan
2010). An attempt has been made to establish new host
record of rust fungus, Puccinia duthiei (Ellis and Tracy,
1897) on Chrysopogon velutinus (Hook.f.) Bor from India.
The rust infected leaves of C. velutinus were collected
on January 2018, from Surali Ghat in Karad Tehsil of Satara
District, (MS) India, situated at altitude of about 710m.
It is geographically located at 17.7380N & 74.4620E. The
leaves with early, mature and late stages of disease were
examined and symptoms were noted (Image 1 a & b).
A number of tiny, elevated, globulous to elongated,
elliptic, dark brown to yellowish-brown powdery rust
pustules were noticed on lower surface of leaves. Later
on, these pustules converted in to blackish color at
maturity (Image 1c). With the help of razor, several thin
transverse sections passing through pustule were cut
Editor: B. Shivaraju, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
and taken on the glass slide. The sections were stained
with cotton blue, mounted in lacto phenol and observed
under digital microscope (Olympus CX21Iledfs1).
Microphotographs of different morphological features
were taken using the software Magvision equipped with
MIPS-3 MP Camera. With the help of fine needle, scrape
mount slides of urediniospores and teliospores were
prepared and dimensions of the same were measured
by software with an inbuilt tool in the system at different
magnifications viz., 10, 40 and 100 X (Image 1. d) & by
using mm and µm scale under digital microscope.
A voucher specimen was deposited in Ajrekar
Mycological Herbarium (AMH), MACS’ Agharkar
Research Institute, Pune, India under the accession
number (AMH-10144).
Puccinia duthiei Ellis & Tracy, 1897
Dicaeoma duthiei (Ellis & Tracy) Sydow [as ‘duthiae’],
Annls mycol. 20(3/4):117 (1922)
Uredo duthiei (Ellis & Tracy) Pardo-Card. [as
‘duthiae’], Revista, Facultad Nacional de Agronomia
Medellin 56(2): 2080 (2003)
Date of publication: 26 August 2020 (online & print)
Citation: Kamble, S.K. (2020). Puccinia duthiei Ellis & Tracy: a new host record on Chrysopogon velutinus from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(11): 16644–16646.
https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.5981.12.11.16644-16646
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Funding: None.
Competing interests: The author declares no competing interests.
Acknowledgements: Author sincerely thankful to Principal Dr. M.M. Rajmane, Sadguru Gadage Maharaj College, Karad for providing common facilities. I express
my gratitude to Dr. G. G. Potdar and Mr. Tarbej Shaikh, Y.C.C.S. Karad for their help in identification of Chrysopogon velutinus. I would like to pay my special thanks
to Dr. Sachin Thite and Dr. Pavan Hande for their kind suggestions.
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Image 1. Puccinia duthiei: a—rust infected plant | b—rust pustules on leaves | c—enlarged view of rust pustule | d—section passing through
rust pustule (showing numerous stalked teliospores) | e—stalked septate teliospores in higher magnification. Scale d=20μm, e=10μm.
Puccinia duthiei Ellis & Tracy
Rust pustules (infection spots) are rounded to
elliptic, elongated, hypophyllous, dark brown to
yellowish-brown, about 0.16–0.67 mm. Urediniosporesoval, echinulate, yellowish to brown, darker at apex,
unicelled, 24.76–35.32 x 15.96–24.16 μm, wall- dark
brown between 1.3–2.35 μm thick, germ pores, 4–6.
Teliospores- unicelled to bicelled, broadly ellipsoidal,
dark yellow to yellowish-brown, constricted near septa,
up to 24.18–48.34 x 24.54– 28.30 µm, thick walled 2.56–
7.94 µm. Teliospore stalk gradually increasing towards
length, hyaline to light olivaceous, aseptate, smooth
walled, up to 97.71–114 x 5–6.75 µm.
Material examined: On living leaves of Chrysopogon
velutinus (Hook.f.) Bor (Poaceae), Karad, Satara (MS)
India, January 2018, Type Duthie, on Andropogon
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pertusus (=Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A. Camus),
Saharanpur, India (NY; isotype PUR).
Discussion: P. chrysopogi (Barclay, 1889) was
reported on Chrysopogon echinulatus (Steud.) W. Wats.
and C. gryllus (L.) Trin. from India by Cummins (1971).
P. chrysopogi was recently listed in fungal flora of
Swat District in Pakistan (Usman et al. 2016). Puccinia
duthiei (Ellis & Tracy, 1897) was reported new to India
on Dichanthium foveolatum by Pawar et al. (2018). The
crucial review of literature indicates that, there are
previous evidences about incidence of P. duthiei in India
on another host. Therefore, it confirms new host record
of P. duthiae on Chrysopogon velutinus from India.
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