Ustilaginales

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Ustilaginales
Huitlacoche
Huitlacoche
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Subphylum: Ustilaginomycotina
Class: Ustilaginomycetes
Order: Ustilaginales
(G. Winter 1880)[1] Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997[2]
genera

Ustilago
Cintractia

Ustilaginales is an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes.

The order Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the "smut fungi"

[edit] Morphology

Has a thick-walled resting spore (teliospore), known as the "brand" (burn) spore or chlamydospore.

[edit] Economic Importance

Ustilaginales are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Winter, G. (1880). Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz, Vol. 1. Leipzig: E. Kummer, 73.  (as "Ustilagineae")
  2. ^ Bauer, R., et al. (1997). "Ultrastructural markers and systematics in smut fungi and allied taxa.". Can. J. Bot. 75: 1311. 
  • 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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