Puccinia melanocephala

TaxID: 133751

Basic Information

Puccinia melanocephala

Common Rust of Sugarcane

Puccinia melanocephala is a fungus and plant pathogen, it is the causal agent of sugarcane rust. It was originally found on the leaves of a species of Arundinaria (cane) in Assam, India. This pathogen was found to also affect multiple species of sugarcane, including Saccharum spontaneum or wild sugarcane, Saccharum robustum, and the most commonly cultivated species Saccharum officinarum. Puccinia melanocephala can also infect other member of the family Poaceae, including some species of bamboo such as Bambusa vulgaris. The first symptoms of sugarcane rust are elongate, yellow-colored leaf spots, roughly 1mm to 4mm in length. The leaf spots gradually become bigger and turn a reddish-brown color. The uredia develop underneath the epidermis where the leaf spots are present. When the uredia become big enough, they break through the epidermis to form the characteristic rust pustules from which uredospores are borne. These pustules can coalesce, resulting in large areas of dead tissue.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Basidiomycota

Pucciniomycetes

Pucciniales

Pucciniaceae

Puccinia

melanocephala

Undefined

Photos (2 photos)

Puccinia melanocephala
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(c) Gabriel Fernandes@BY
Puccinia melanocephala
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(c) Gabriel Fernandes@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (1 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Saccharum officinarum Host

Quarantine Status (10 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Bahrain Quarantine pests 2003
Brazil A1 list 2018
Iran Absent 2018
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Oman Absent —
Pakistan Quarantine pests —
French Polynesia Quarantine pests —
Qatar Absent —
Sudan Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pest 1989

Distribution (42 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
1
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present
Belize Present —
Bermuda Present —
Brazil Absent
Barbados Present —
China Present
Cameroon Present —
Colombia Present —
Costa Rica Present —
Cuba Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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