Tilletia tritici

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Tilletia tritici
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Ustilaginomycetes Order: Tilletiales Family: Tilletiaceae Genus: Tilletia Species: T. tritici
Binomial name
Tilletia tritici (Bjerk.) G. Winter (1875)
Synonyms
Lycoperdon tritici Bjerk. 1775 Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. & C. Tul. 1847 Uredo caries DC. 1815

Tilletia tritici is the causal agent of common bunt of wheat. The tilletia was named after French agronomist Mathieu Tillet (1714-1791).

[edit] Morphology

Teliopsores are thick-walled, globiose, reticulate and 13-23 μm in diameter.^[1]

[edit] Sources

Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database

[edit] References

1. ^ Wiese, M.V. (1987). Compendium of wheat diseases. American Phytopathological Society, 124.