Disease Of Rye And Other Cereals Crossword Clue

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	noun • a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus • a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
	28%	9		Fungus that causes smut disease on wheat and other cereals
	noun • a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
	28%	13		Disease-causing organisms of cereals
	noun • parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes

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