| Tilletia tritici | |
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| 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) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Lycoperdon tritici Bjerk. 1775 |
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Tilletia tritici is the causal agent of common bunt of wheat. The tilletia was named after French agronomist Mathieu Tillet (1714-1791).
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Teliopsores are thick-walled, globiose, reticulate and 13-23 μm in diameter.[1]
It was used as a biological weapon by Iraq against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.[2]