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Plants, Permaculture, Food, Spooky Stuff. Co-editor of Invironment: medium.com/invironment.
Corn smut fungus weakens maize’s defences by making it ‘see red’
eLife
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What this article doesn’t mention is that corn smut is delicious. It’s considered a delicacy in Mexico and brings in high market prices in the culinary world:

Huitlacoche Is No Scourge In L.A. Here's Where to Find the Funky Mexican Corn Fungus
I remember my first taste of smut. Not the Playboy-Hustler kind, but corn smut: a plant disease in which a…www.laweekly.com
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    Jeremy Puma

    Plants, Permaculture, Food, Spooky Stuff. Co-editor of Invironment: medium.com/invironment.