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Tilletia laevis

Tilletia laevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Exobasidiomycetes
Subclass: Exobasidiomycetidae
Order: Tilletiales
Family: Tilletiaceae
Genus: Tilletia
Species: T. laevis
Binomial name
Tilletia laevis
J.G. Kühn, (1873)
Synonyms

Erysibe foetida
Tilletia foetens
Tilletia foetida
Tilletia tritici var. laevis
Ustilago foetens


Erysibe foetida
Tilletia foetens
Tilletia foetida
Tilletia tritici var. laevis
Ustilago foetens

Tilletia laevis is a plant pathogen that causes bunt on wheat.

It was used as a biological weapon by Iraq against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.


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