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Definition of Covered smut
1. Noun. A smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covered Smut
Literary usage of Covered smut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"covered smut. This disease was more common the past season than it has been for
a number ... Johnson county in particular had a great deal of covered smut. ..."
2. Diseases of Economic Plants by Frank Lincoln Stevens, John Galentine Hall (1921)
"... in the cases of wheat loose smut and the covered smut of barley, but complete
reliability of this treatment for these diseases is not yet demonstrated. ..."
3. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"The naked smut is more common than the covered smut of barley and also more
difficult to combat. This smut attacks the grains and forms smutted heads, ..."
4. The Small Grains by Mark Alfred Carleton (1920)
"The spores of the covered smut are smooth, whereas those of loose smut are ...
The covered smut may be controlled by the same method of seed treatment ..."
5. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"Experiments to determine the vitality of smut spores have shown that those of
the stinking smut of wheat, covered smut of barley and oat smut are long-lived ..."
6. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"covered smut of barley (Ustilago hordei, Jensen) attacks the ears of cultivated
... Preventive means same as those recommended for covered smut of barley. ..."
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