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Definition of Genus Tilletia
1. Noun. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Tilletiaceae, Tilletiaceae
Member holonyms: Bunt, Tilletia Caries, Bunt, Stinking Smut, Tilletia Foetida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tilletia
Literary usage of Genus Tilletia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"A revision of the genus Tilletia, by Massee, is contained in the Kew Bulletin of
Miscellaneous Information for 1899. Professor Bailey contributes to The ..."
2. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1901)
"Massee,f in his recent monograph of Tilletia, excludes this species from the
genus Tilletia The spores measure 16.6 to 20.8x24.9 to 29.1. ..."
3. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1913)
"(5) Black mildew, due often to fungi belonging to the genus Tilletia, is occasionally
found; it is very rapid in growth. (6) Purple mildew is rare. ..."
4. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1907)
"(5) Black mildew, due often to fungi belonging to the genus Tilletia, is occasionally
found; it is very rapid in growth. (6) Purple mildew is rare. ..."
5. Transactions by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1881)
"... the internal cells on the rupture of the sori give off short germinal tubes,
which bear at their tips whorls of short cells as in the genus Tilletia. ..."