Tilletia laevis
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| Tilletia laevis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Exobasidiomycetes |
| Subclass: | Exobasidiomycetidae |
| Order: | Tilletiales |
| Family: | Tilletiaceae |
| Genus: | Tilletia |
| Species: | T. laevis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tilletia laevis J.G. Kühn, (1873) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Erysibe foetida |
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Tilletia laevis is a plant pathogen that causes bunt on wheat.
It was used as a biological weapon by Iraq against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Suffert, Frédéric; Émilie Latxague and Ivan Sache (11 March 2009). "Plant pathogens as agroterrorist weapons: assessment of the threat for European agriculture and forestry". Food Security (Springer Netherlands) 1 (2): 221–232. doi:10.1007/s12571-009-0014-2. http://www.springerlink.com/content/jw473qk022660161/. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
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