Ustilago
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Ka Faraq Gatri
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Category:Ustilaginomycotina
{{Taxobox
| name = ''Ustilago''
| image = Ustilago maydis de 2.jpg
| image_width = 270px
| image_caption = ''Ustilago maydis'' (Corn smut)
| regnum = [[Fungi]]
| phylum = [[Basidiomycota]]
| classis = [[Ustilaginomycetes]]
| ordo = [[Ustilaginales]]
| genus = ''Ustilago''
| genus_authority = (Pers.) Roussel 1806
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
* ''[[Ustilago avenae|U. avenae]]'' (Pers.) Rostr. -- loose smut of oats
* ''[[Ustilago esculenta|U. esculenta]]'' P. Henn. -- zizania smut
* ''[[Ustilago maydis|U. maydis]]'' (DC.) Corda -- [[corn smut]]
* ''[[Ustilago nuda|U. nuda]]'' (C.N. Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle -- loose smut of barley
* ''[[Ustilago tritici|U. tritici]]'' C. Bauhin -- loose smut of wheat
}}
'''''Ustilago''''' is a genus of [[smut (fungus)|smut fungi]] parasitic on [[Poaceae|grasses]].
There is a large research community that works on ''Ustilago maydis'' including researchers at the [[University of Georgia]],
[[Philipps-Universität Marburg]], [[University of British Columbia]] and others.
Research with this organism has led to better understanding of the [[genetics]] underlying self-non-self recognition through elucidation of the mating type system as well as fundamental aspects of [[signal transduction]] and cell-cycle regulation.
''U. maydis'' is also eaten as a traditional Mexican food known as huitlacoche [[corn smut]]
The genome of U. maydis has been sequenced [http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/ustilago_maydis/Home.html]
==See also==
*[[Corn smut]]
[[Category:Ustilaginomycotina]]
[[Category:Cereal diseases]]
[[Category:Plant pathogens and diseases]]
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{{plant-disease-stub}}
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