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LOOSE SMUT OF WHEAT (USTILAGO TRITICI JENS.). NATURAL SIZE. Left: At blossoming-time of wheat - plant. In centre stem shot - blade dissected away to show inflorescence converted to mass of smut - spores before emergence. Right: Same at harvest-time. Smut-spores all blown away, bare rachis alone remaining. (Material from Ashburton Experimental Farm.) [Photos by H. Drake.

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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXX, Issue 3, 20 March 1925, Page 169

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LOOSE SMUT OF WHEAT (USTILAGO TRITICI JENS.). NATURAL SIZE. Left: At blossoming-time of wheat – plant. In centre stem shot – blade dissected away to show inflorescence converted to mass of smut – spores before emergence. Right: Same at harvest-time. Smut-spores all blown away, bare rachis alone remaining. (Material from Ashburton Experimental Farm.) [Photos by H. Drake. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXX, Issue 3, 20 March 1925, Page 169

LOOSE SMUT OF WHEAT (USTILAGO TRITICI JENS.). NATURAL SIZE. Left: At blossoming-time of wheat – plant. In centre stem shot – blade dissected away to show inflorescence converted to mass of smut – spores before emergence. Right: Same at harvest-time. Smut-spores all blown away, bare rachis alone remaining. (Material from Ashburton Experimental Farm.) [Photos by H. Drake. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXX, Issue 3, 20 March 1925, Page 169