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Loose smut of wheat is

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Loose smut of wheat is internally seed-borne.
Loose smut of barley and wheat are internally seed-borne and carried as a small colony of fungus inside the seed embryo rather than as spores on the seed coat.
These are the only internally seed-borne smuts that occur in Australian cereal crops. Contaminated machinery and soil do not transmit these diseases.
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