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flag smut fungus

DEFINITIONS OF: flag smut fungus

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n a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores

Types:
Urocystis tritici, wheat flag smut
fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat
Type of:
smut, smut fungus
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
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