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Bruce Watt, University of Maine, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 5503665

loose smut of wheat or barley (Ustilago tritici (Pers.) Rostr.) (Pers.) Rostr.

Photographer:
Bruce Watt
Organization:
University of Maine
Descriptor:
Sign
Description:
Mass of teliospores in infected seed
Image type:
Laboratory
Host:
common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

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Image location:
, Lincoln County

Subject

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Subphylum: Ustilaginomycotinia
Class: Ustilaginomycetes
Subclass: Ustilaginomycetidae
Order: Ustilaginales
Family: Ustilaginaceae
Genus: Ustilago
Subject: Ustilago tritici (Pers.) Rostr.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Triticum
Subject: Triticum aestivum L.
Node Affiliation:
Cornell University
Image uploaded:
Monday, October 21, 2013
Image last updated:
Monday, October 21, 2013