Ustilago

To quote from a past post I wrote on this subject, it's "a plant fungus called Ustilago maydis and infects an ear of corn via the ovaries and turns the kernels into tumors or 'galls' and expands them to the point of becoming mini volcanoes of erupting black pus."

Deep End Dining Eddie Lin 2010

Zizania latifolia and Ustilago esculenta, a grass-fungus association.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Zizania latifolia and Ustilago esculenta, a grass-fungus association.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Huitlacoche is a parasitic fungus, Ustilago maydis, that attacks corn plants, and that has been eaten in Mexico and Central America since Aztec times.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Huitlacoche is a parasitic fungus, Ustilago maydis, that attacks corn plants, and that has been eaten in Mexico and Central America since Aztec times.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Common smut (Ustilago maydis): A fungus that causes galls

Chapter 10 1981

Both pure cultures of yeast (Saccharomyces carbajali, Candida utilis, etc.), and mixed cultures of yeast, fungi (Ustilago maydis), and bacteria (Corynebacterium glutamicum, Brevibacterium flavum) were used to produce the SCP biomass.

Chapter 5 1979

With over 5,000 species of rusts and smuts the only the corn smut (Ustilago maydis) is commonly eaten as food.

Huitlacoche 1919

Growing on corn, Ustilago maydis forms large, swollen, kernel-like globules with soft black flesh covered by a silvery gray skin.

Huitlacoche 1919

The week that last months Mycophagist article on Ustilago maydis was in the mail Narsai David devoted one of his short programs about it on radio station KCBS.

Huitlacoche 1919