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noun - a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
noun - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant
A fungus (Claviceps purpurea) that infects various cereal plants and forms compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many of the grains of the host plant.
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| a fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black elongated fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism. |
| A fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black elongated fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism. |
| A small horny protuberance on the back of each of a horse's fetlocks. |
| 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 |
| a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus |
| A fungus (Claviceps purpurea) that infects various cereal plants and forms compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many of the grains of the host plant. |
| The disease caused by such a fungus. |
| The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid. |
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Ergot (pron. UR-gt) or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps.The most prominent member of this group is Claviceps purpurea ("rye ergot fungus"). This fungus grows on rye and related plants, and produces alkaloids that can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals who consume grains contaminated with its fruiting structure (called ergot sclerotium).Claviceps includes about 50 known species, mostly in the tropical regions. Economically significant species include C. purpurea (parasitic on grasses and cereals), C. fusiformis (on pearl millet, buffel grass), C. paspali (on dallis grass), C. africana (on sorghum), and C. lutea (on paspalum). C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat, and barley. It affects oats only rarely. * C. purpurea has at least three races or varieties, which differ in their host specificity: * G1 land grasses of open meadows and fields; * G2 grasses from moist, forest, a |