Some morphological and physiological properties of teliospores of Tilletia controversa Kühn from couch grass are described and compared with the same pathogen from wheat. Differences in germination rate and intensity at 5 °C under daylight were found. Surface structure differences were studied by scanning electron microscopy. Artificial transfer to various wheat cultivars and to Agropyron cristatum was unsuccessful. In Czechoslovakia, wild grasses are not a natural infection source for wheat.
Nováková J., Zacha V. (1975): Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Biologie der Tilletia controversa Kühn von Agropyron repens (L.) P.B. – Česká Mykologie 29(2): 83–89.
