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Claviceps purpurea (ergot), an ascomycete and member of the family Clavicipitacea, is considered a pathogen of all grass species (family Poaecea) including economically important cereal crops which infects ovaries resulting in the development of a fungal sclerotium rather than a…

In 1970, a highly virulent race of a fungal plant pathogen emerged, resulting in the most severe plant disease epidemic in US history at that time, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight epidemic. Cochliobolus heterostrophus race T, differed from the original race by production of a toxi…