The domestication of crops and the development of agricultural societies not only brought
about major changes in human interactions with the environment but also in plants' …

Ustilago maydis virus H1 (Umv-H1) is a mycovirus that infects Ustilago maydis, a fungal
pathogen of maize. As Zea mays was domesticated, it carried with it many associated …

The corn pathogen Ustilago maydis requires its host plant maize for development and
completion of its sexual cycle. We have identified the fungal mig2–1 gene as being …

Maize is a major cereal crop worldwide. However, susceptibility to biotrophic pathogens is
the primary constraint to increasing productivity. U. maydis is a biotrophic fungal pathogen …

A new sugarcane smut race that infected the previously resistant cultivar H78-7750
appeared in Hawaii in 2001. It was subsequently shown that many of the Hawaii sugarcane …

Thirty wild isolates belonging to five different locations in Mexico plus two laboratory strains
of Ustilago maydis were characterized by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) …

Ustilago maydis is a smut fungus that infects all aerial maize organs, namely, seedling
leaves, tassels, and ears. In all organs, tumors are formed by inducing hypertrophy and …

We investigated two alternative hypotheses for the origin of crop pathogen species: that
human-mediated agricultural practices drove the divergence of many crop plant pathogen …

Population level diversity at the Ustilago maydis b mating type locus was determined in
samples from four Minnesota locations using a combination of plate mating techniques and …

Little is known about the population mating behavior of the smut fungus Ustilago maydis DC
(Corda). To determine the amount of inbreeding that occurs in local U. maydis populations …