Abstract
Sporisorium scitamineum is a basidiomycete and the causal agent of sugarcane smut disease which historically caused extensive crop damage worldwide. The fungus presents two distinct phases - monokaryotic and dikaryotic - during their life cycle. To infect the host, S. scitamineum needs to undergo sexual cross to form dikaryotic hyphae. Infection culminates with the outgrowth of a whip lik…