Tilletia tritici
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T. tritici
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| Tilletia tritici (Bjerk.) G. Winter (1875)
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Lycoperdon tritici Bjerk. 1775 |
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Tilletia tritici is the causal agent of common bunt of wheat.
Morphology
Teliopsores are thick-walled, globiose, reticulate and 13-23 μm in diameter.[1]
Use as a biological weapon
It was used as a biological weapon by Iraq against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.[2]
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