Melanopsichiaceae

	Melanopsichiaceae The Melanopsichiaceae are a family of smut fungi in the order Ustilaginomycetes Ustilaginomycetes is the class of true smut fungi. They are plant parasites with about 1400 recognised species in 70 genera. They have a simple septum with a septal pore cap, this is different from Agaricomycotina which has a dolipore septum wi ... containing three genera. References External links Ustilaginomycotina Basidiomycota families {{Ustilaginomycotina-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Exoteliospora The ''Exoteliospora'' is a monotypic genus of smut fungi in the family Melanopsichiaceae The Melanopsichiaceae are a family of smut fungi in the order Ustilaginomycetes Ustilaginomycetes is the class of true smut fungi. They are plant parasites with about 1400 recognised species in 70 genera. They have a simple septum with a septa ... containing the single species ''Exoteliospora osmundae''. References External links Ustilaginomycotina Monotypic Basidiomycota genera Taxa named by Franz Oberwinkler Taxa described in 1999 {{Ustilaginomycotina-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Melanotaenium The ''Melanotaenium'' is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanopsichiaceae. Species ''Melanotaenium adoxae'' ''Melanotaenium albizziae'' ''Melanotaenium antirrhini'' ''Melanotaenium apludae'' ''Melanotaenium arthraxonis'' ''Melanotaenium arundinellae'' ''Melanotaenium brachiariae var. brachiariae'' ''Melanotaenium brachiariae var. minutum'' ''Melanotaenium brachiariae var. montanae'' ''Melanotaenium brachiariae var. paspalidii'' '' Melanotaenium byzovae'' ''Melanotaenium cingens'' ''Melanotaenium dimeriae'' ''Melanotaenium echinochloae'' ''Melanotaenium endogenum'' ''Melanotaenium endogenum var. endogenum'' ''Melanotaenium endogenum var. spermacoces'' ''Melanotaenium eragrostidis'' ''Melanotaenium erodianum'' ''Melanotaenium euphorbiae'' ''Melanotaenium gunnerae'' ''Melanotaenium hypogaeum'' ''Melanotaenium jaapii'' ''Melanotaenium koschurnikovaeanum'' ''Melanotaenium lamii'' ''Melanotaenium metzii'' ''Melanotaenium plumbeum'' ''Melanotaenium plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yelsemia ''Yelsemia'' is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanopsichiaceae The Melanopsichiaceae are a family of smut fungi in the order Ustilaginomycetes Ustilaginomycetes is the class of true smut fungi. They are plant parasites with about 1400 recognised species in 70 genera. They have a simple septum with a septa ... containing four species. References External links Ustilaginomycotina {{Ustilaginomycotina-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ustilaginales The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contains 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species. ''Ustinaginales'' is also known and classified as the smut fungi. They are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha .... 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. See also * Huitlacoche References ;Notes ;Bibliography C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fungi A fungus (plural, : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of Eukaryote, eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and Mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a Kingdom (biology), kingdom, separately from the other eukaryotic kingdoms, which by one traditional classification include Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa, and Chromista. A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. Fungi, like animals, are heterotrophs; they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules, typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment. Fungi do not photosynthesize. Growth is their means of motility, mobility, except for spores (a few of which are flagellated), which may travel through the air or water. Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems. These and other differences place fungi in a single gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Basidiomycota Basidiomycota () is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi. Members are known as basidiomycetes. More specifically, Basidiomycota includes these groups: mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and ''Cryptococcus'', the human pathogenic yeast. Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae (except for basidiomycota-yeast) and reproduce sexually via the formation of specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia that normally bear external meiospores (usually four). These specialized spores are called basidiospores. However, some Basidiomycota are obligate asexual reproducers. Basidiomycota that reproduce asexually (discussed below) can typically be recognized as members of this division by gross similarity to others, by the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ustilaginomycetes Ustilaginomycetes is the class of true smut fungi. They are plant parasites with about 1400 recognised species in 70 genera. They have a simple septum with a septal pore cap, this is different from Agaricomycotina which has a dolipore septum with parenthoesome. The group is monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic ... (has a common ancestor). References Ustilaginomycotina Fungal plant pathogens and diseases Fungus classes {{fungus-plant-disease-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Family (biology) Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Smut Fungi The smuts are multicellular fungi characterized by their large numbers of teliospores. The smuts get their name from a Germanic word for dirt because of their dark, thick-walled, and dust-like teliospores. They are mostly Ustilaginomycetes (phylum Basidiomycota) and can cause plant disease. The smuts are grouped with the other basidiomycetes because of their commonalities concerning sexual reproduction. Smuts are cereal and crop pathogens that most notably affect members of the grass family ( Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). Economically important hosts include maize, barley, wheat, oats, sugarcane, and forage grasses. They eventually hijack the plants' reproductive systems, forming galls which darken and burst, releasing fungal teliospores which infect other plants nearby. Before infection can occur, the smuts need to undergo a successful mating to form dikaryotic hyphae (two haploid cells fuse to form a dikaryon). Wild rice smut '' Ustilago esculenta'' is a species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ustilaginomycotina The Ustilaginomycotina is a subdivision within the division Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi. It consists of the classes Ustilaginomycetes and Exobasidiomycetes, and in 2014 the subdivision was reclassified and the two additional classes Malasseziomycetes and Moniliellomycetes added. The name was first published by Doweld in 2001; Bauer and colleagues later published it in 2006 as an isonym. Ustilagomycotina and Agaricomycotina are considered to be sister groups, and they are in turn sister groups to the subdivision Pucciniomycotina. Ustilaginomycotina comprises 115 genera with more than 1700 species. The subdivision is mostly plant parasites on vascular plants, and the distribution of the subdivision is therefore restricted to the distribution of the host. The group is also called the true smut fungi because of the production of teliospores. The name smut is still used as a term since it circumscribes the organization and life cycle of Ustilaginomycotina, but it is not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]