A smut which affects the plants is said to produce contact urticaria.
According to Mediawatch-UK 's news snippets, smut campaigners Mediamarch handed at 121,000 signature petition to 10 Downing street yesterday.
Among the subjects deserving notice may be mentioned the practice of steeping and liming seed corn as a preventive of smut; changing every year the species of grain, and bringing seed corn from a distance; ploughing down green crops as manure; and feeding horses with broken oats and chaff.
An economic weapon, wheat smut, designed to attack crops, was also being experimented with.
Barley is liable to smut and the other fungus diseases which attack wheat, and the insect pests which prey on the two plants are also similar.
Benny began to indulge in the type of schoolboy smut and saucy postcard humor that would eventually become his trademark.
Claire Sansford never seems to be able to escape from the smut fungi !
Covered Smut - Redigo Deter controls covered smut caused by Ustilago hordei (covered smut is rare in the UK).
Encouragement to seedgrowing is given by the holding of seed fairs, and bulletins are issued on weeds, the methods of treating seed-wheat against smut and on other subjects.
False smut disease is now affecting individual date palm trees in the north, central and south areas of Qatar.
Full of music hall, seaside postcard humor, this is smut at its best.
Niall hmm, a ' penetration testing ' firm has worked out a way of pumping smut into every room.
Of these the rust, smut and bunt fungi are by far the most common and the most destructive.
Smut of wheat, Ustilago Tritici, infects the host at the time of flowering.
The after development is similar to that of smut, and the seed grain becomes a mere mass of fungus spores.
The other two parasites, smut and bunt, affect principally the grain.
Tilletia Tritici, bunt or stinking smut of wheat, is so-called because the bunted grain has a disagreeable odour of stale herrings.
When the flowers form, however, the mycelium sends hyphae into the young ovaries and rapidly replaces the stores of sugar and starch, &c., which would have gone to make the grain, by the soot-like mass of spores so well known as smut, &c. These spores adhere to the grain, and unless destroyed, by "steeping" or other treatment, are sown with it, and again produce sporidia and yeast-conidia which infect the seedlings.