- Ustilago
Taxobox
name = "Ustilago"
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 =
* "U. avenae" (Pers.) Rostr. -- loose smut of oats
* "U. esculenta" P. Henn. -- zizania smut
* "U. maydis" (DC.) Corda --corn smut
* "U. nuda" (C.N. Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle -- loose smut of barley
* "U. tritici" C. Bauhin -- loose smut of wheat"Ustilago" is a genus of smut fungi parasitic on 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 ofsignal 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" was [http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/ustilago_maydis/Home.html sequenced] . [cite journal |author=Kämper J, Kahmann R, Bölker M, "et al" |title=Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis |journal=Nature |volume=444 |issue=7115 |pages=97–101 |year=2006 |month=November |pmid=17080091 |doi=10.1038/nature05248 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05248]
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Corn smut
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