Tilletia tritici

Tilletia tritici
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi;
Division:	Basidiomycota;
Class:	Ustilaginomycetes;
Order:	Tilletiales;
Family:	Tilletiaceae;
Genus:	Tilletia;
Species:	T. tritici;
Binomial name
	Tilletia tritici; (Bjerk.) G. Winter (1875)
Synonyms
	Lycoperdon tritici Bjerk. 1775; Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. & C. Tul. 1847; Uredo caries DC. 1815

Tilletia tritici is the causal agent of common bunt of wheat. The tilletia was named after French agronomist Mathieu Tillet (1714-1791).

Morphology

Teliopsores are thick-walled, globiose, reticulate and 13-23 μm in diameter.^[1]

↑ Wiese, M.V. (1987). Compendium of wheat diseases. American Phytopathological Society. p. 124.