Ustilago produce tan to brown, wrinkled, yeast-like colonies having spindle-shaped parent cells with similar blastoconidia. ... Ustilago is a yeast that inhabits the soil and plant material. It is a pathogen of seeds and flowers of cereals, wheat, corn, and grasses. Its association with human disease is unclear and it has...
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Ustilago is a genus of smut fungi parasitic on grasses. There is a large research community that works on Ustilago maydis including researchers at the University of Georgia, Philipps-Universität ...
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Corn smut is a disease of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis . U. maydis causes smut disease on maize ( Zea mays ) and teosinte ( Euchlena mexicana ). Although it...
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Ustilago avenae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ustilago avenae is a plant pathogen.
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This month's fungus is Ustilago maydis, which causes corn smut. ... Corn smut is caused by the basidiomycete fungus Ustilago maydis, sometimes called Ustilago zeae-maydis, which is pictured to the left in a photograph by Deon Nontelle of the Biology Department here at the UW-La Crosse.
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Ustilago maydis, a new fungal model system for cell biology. ... Here, we introduce the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis as a new model organism for studying cell biological processes. Genome-wide analysis demonstrates that U. maydis is more closely related to humans than to budding yeast, and numerous proteins are shared...
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Welcome to the MIPS Ustilago maydis Database ... The MIPS Ustilago maydis Genome Database aims to present information on the molecular structure and functional network of the entirely sequenced, filamentous fungus Ustilago maydis. The underlying sequence is the initial release of the high quality draft sequence of the...
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The current genome size of Ustilago maydis is approximately 20 million base pairs. Presently strain 521 has been sequenced. It is composed of a very highly conserved repetitive sequence.
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Over nine Ustilago species have been reported to occur in Hawaii (Raabe, et al., 1981). The following is a list of the reported pathogens from this genus (Ustilago) and the hosts they infect.
www.extento.hawaii.edu/Kbase/crop/type/ust_prim.htm
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