A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
A disease of cereal ears caused by a fungus. Seeds are replaced by black poisonous spore producing bodies. It is not common nowadays due to high seed standards.
a disease of certain grasses and cereals, especially rye, caused by Claviceps spp.; a sclerotium, or resting structure, produced by Claviceps species and other closely related fungi in infected flowers of parasitized grain plants
a fungus that causes a disease of rye plants
a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
A fungus infecting rye and other grains” ( Levinthal, 120).
A fungus that grows on grains, particularly rye, that contains lysergic acid, a chemical used to make LSD.
Hard body produced by the fungus Claviceps purpurea; also the name of a disease of rye and other grasses caused by fungi of the genus Claviceps.
Disease of certain grasses and cereals, especially rye, caused by Claviceps purpurea; also the spur-shaped sclerotium of C. purpurea that replaces the grain in a diseased inflorescence. ( 20)
This is the name of the fungus Claviceps Purpurea that grows on wheat and rye plants and is often referred to as 'wheat rust'; LSD comes from the ergot fungus.
A fungus infecting the fruiting bodies of numerous grasses. Ergot preparations have been used medicinally for several hundred years, but many human and animal deaths have been recorded from eating ergot infected grain.
Ergot is the common name of a fungus in the genus Claviceps that is parasitic on certain grains and grasses. The form the fungus takes to over-winter is called a sclerotium, and this small structure is what is usually referred to as 'ergot', although referring to the members of the Claviceps genus as 'ergot' is also correct. There are about 50 known species of Claviceps, most of them in the tropical regions.