Ustilaginales

Ustilaginales
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Ustilaginales

Huitlacoche

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Basidiomycota
Subphylum:	Ustilaginomycotina
Class:	Ustilaginomycetes
Order:	Ustilaginales (G. Winter 1880)¹ Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997²

genera

Ustilago
Cintractia

Ustilaginales is an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes.

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.

References

^ Winter, G. (1880). Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz, Vol. 1. Leipzig: E. Kummer, 73. (as "Ustilagineae")
^ 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, 4^th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5

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