NOUN
- a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores
- disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores
How To Use loose smut In A Sentence
- Several have resistance to diseases such as powdery mildew, leaf rust, net blotch, Septoria, scald, spot blotch, loose smut, barley yellow dwarf virus, and barley stripe mosaic virus. 13. Other Cultivated Grains
- All wheat seed should be treated with a fungicide to control soilborne seed rots and seedling blights, seed-borne Stagonospora and Fusarium seedling blight, loose smut and bunt.
- Table I is a partial list of seed treatment fungicides that will not only protect against seedling blight but also prevent infection by the common bunt and loose smut fungi.
- Select good quality, cleaned and treated seed and plant at the proper time to lessen the risk of crown and root rot, wheat streak mosaic, soil-borne mosaic, common bunt and loose smut.
- Plant well-cleaned, disease-free seed, treated with a fungicide that controls Fusarium seedling blight, bunt, and loose smut.
- It is also good insurance against common bunt and loose smut.
- These include loose smut, common bunt, and seed-borne Septoria and scab.
