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Definition of Tilletia caries

1. Noun. Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tilletia Caries

Literary usage of Tilletia caries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"Tilletia caries, Tul. THE disease of wheat generally known as bunt is recognised in some districts as pepper - brand, smut balls, bladder-brand, ..."

2. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops: Chiefly Such as are Caused by Fungi by Worthington George Smith (1884)
"Tilletia caries, Tul. THE disease of wheat generally known as bunt is recognised in some districts as pepper - brand, smut balls, bladder-brand, ..."

3. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Spores roundish or egg-shaped. Surface warty, brown. Tilletia caries and Tilletia ... or stinking disease of wheat). et Tilletia caries. ..."

4. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"In no other case than Tilletia caries is the mode of entrance of the fungus into the host plant known. 415.—No sexual organs have yet been discovered. ..."

5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"If Tilletia caries be cultivated on weak, poor soil, wo get only unripe forms—ie moulds make their appearance." These ripe and unripe forms may be thus ..."

6. Diseases of the digestive system by Frank Billings (1906)
"Mildew spores of wheat (tilletia-caries), producing stone or stinking rust. (Magnified 250 times.) inclusions which are noted in intestinal mucus are. of ..."

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