Claviceps purpurea

TaxID: 5111

Basic Information

Claviceps purpurea

Ergot, ergot fungus

Claviceps purpurea is an ergot fungus that grows on the ears of rye and related cereal and forage plants. Consumption of grains or seeds contaminated with the survival structure of this fungus, the ergot sclerotium, can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals. C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley. It affects oats only rarely.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Ascomycota

Sordariomycetes

Hypocreales

Clavicipitaceae

Claviceps

purpurea

Undefined

Photos (5 photos)

Claviceps purpurea
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(c) Grzegorz Grzejszczak@BY-SA
Claviceps purpurea
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(c) Jerry Cooper@BY
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(c) kevinkclausen@BY-NC
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(c) Radovan Bednár@BY-NC
Claviceps purpurea
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(c) Grzegorz Grzejszczak@BY-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (2 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Secale cereale Host
Triticum Host

Quarantine Status (12 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Burkina Faso Absent —
Bahrain Quarantine pests 2003
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Egypt Abesent 2018
Guatemala Absent —
India Quarantine pests —
Nicaragua Absent —
Oman Absent —
Panama Quarantine pests —
Qatar Absent —
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Distribution (56 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Belarus Present —
Brazil Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
China Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_004016095.1 Contig 30 27 27 -

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature