Ustilaginales
| Ustilaginales | |
|---|---|
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| Huitlacoche | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Subphylum: | Ustilaginomycotina |
| Class: | Ustilaginomycetes |
| Order: | Ustilaginales (G. Winter 1880)[1] Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997[2] |
| Families | |
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Anthracoideaceae | |
The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contains 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species.[3]
Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the smut fungi. They are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.
Morphology
Has a thick-walled resting spore (teliospore), known as the "brand" (burn) spore or chlamydospore.
Economic importance
They can infect corn plants (Zea mays) producing tumor-like galls that render the ears unsaleable. This corn smut, is also known as huitlacoche and sold canned for consumption in Latin America.
See also
References
- Notes
- ↑ Winter G. (1880). Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz, Vol. 1 (in German). Leipzig: E. Kummer. p. 73. (as "Ustilagineae")
- ↑ Bauer, R.; et al. (1997). "Ultrastructural markers and systematics in smut fungi and allied taxa.". Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 1311. doi:10.1139/b97-842.
- ↑ Kirk MP, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th edition. Wallingford: CABI. p. 716–17. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
- Bibliography
- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
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