Tilletia caries
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Tilletia caries (synonymous with Tilletia tritici) is a basidiomycete that causes common bunt of wheat. The common names of this disease are stinking bunt of wheat and stinking smut of wheat. This pathogen infects wheat, rye, and various other grasses. T. caries is economically and agriculturally important because it reduces both the wheat yield and grain quality.[1]
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Tilletia caries | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Exobasidiomycetes |
Order: | Tilletiales |
Family: | Tilletiaceae |
Genus: | Tilletia |
Species: | T. caries |
Binomial name | |
Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. & C. Tul., (1847) | |
Synonyms | |
Fusisporium inosculans Berk., (1847) |
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