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Definition of Head smut
1. Noun. Smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut.
Generic synonyms: Smut, Smut Fungus
Group relationships: Genus Sphacelotheca, Sphacelotheca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Head Smut
Literary usage of Head smut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"head smut destroys the entire head, which, as it emerges from the sheath, is
practically a mass of smut spores covered with a whitish membrane. ..."
2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"head smut destroys the entire head, which, as it emerges from the sheath, is
practically a mass of smut spores covered with a whitish membrane. ..."
3. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"The head smut can be distinguished from the grain-smut by this habit. ... (See
also head smut of Sorghum.) A few experiments on this smut have indicated ..."
4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... head smut (Sphacelotheca ... head smut (Sphacelotheca), smut ( Ustilago
zeae) ; (4) on Italian millet, downy mildew ..."
5. Contributions by Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1922)
"Observations on the head-smut ... However, only eight varieties of sorghum showed
conspicuous susceptibility to the head-smut: Brown durra (SPI 17537) ..."
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