Directory of Ustilaginales Resources

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Ustilaginales is an order of fungi. Most of its members are smuts which are parasites of monocots and infect some of the world's most important crop plants.

Resources in This Category

• Exobasidiaceae

  http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Mushrooms/Basidio/Exobasidiaceae.html
  Photographs of leaves affected by Exobasidium rostrupii and Exobasidium vaccinii.

• Exobasidium vaccinii

  http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Exobasidium_vaccinii.htm
  Several photographs of foliage affected by this species. Text in Polish.

• Ustilaginales

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustilaginales
  Information from Wikipedia on this order of fungi, members of which are serious plant pathogens and commonly called smuts.

• Ustilago maydis

  http://www.pilzepilze.de/galerie/v/Lateinisch/U/ustilago/maydis/
  Photographs of maize infected by this species.

• Ustilago maydis

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/march98.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this species which causes corn smut infecting the corn ears, but eaten as a delicacy in Mexico.

• Ustilago tritici

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Ustilago.html
  Microscopic image.

 

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