Smut Fungus (Noun)
Meaning
Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Smut fungus commonly infects corn plants, causing tumors to form on the ears and reducing yields.
- A type of smut fungus was found to be causing the black powder to form on the wheat grains.
- The infection of plants by smut fungus leads to the degradation of the grain quality.
- Entomopathogenic fungi are not related to the smut fungus, which primarily affects plant growth.
- Biology students examined the microstructure of the smut fungus that infects certain species of grass.