Under artificial inoculation the pathogen could infect cereal plants such as sorghum sudangrass columbus grass corn foxtailmillet pearl millet jobstears rice oat wheat and green foxtail.
There were great difference of resistance to kernel smut among foxtailmillet varieties, of which there were 79.5% varieties with disease affication or high disease affication.
谷子不同品种对粒黑穗病的抗性差异很大，其中有79．5％的品种属感病或高度感病类型。
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Changes of activities of protective enzymes were able to play an important role in resistance to head smut in foxtailmillet.