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Selected References

Banuett, F. 1995. Genetics of Ustilago maydis, a fungal pathogen that induces tumors in maize. Annual Review of Genetics 29:179-208.

Bayless, R., D.G. Bayless, and J.M. Brownsen. 1996. Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen. Scribner, New York. 448 pp.

Christensen, J.J. 1963. Corn smut caused by Ustilago maydis. American Phytopathological Society Monograph 2. 41 pp.

Day, P.R., and S.L. Anagnostakis. 1971. Corn smut dikaryon in culture. Nature: New Biology 231:19-20.

Kahmann, R., and J. Kämper. 2004. Tansley Review: Ustilago maydis: How its biology relates to pathogenic development. New Phytologist 164:30.

Kennedy, D. 1989. The Art of Mexican Cooking: Traditional Mexican Cooking for Aficionados. Bantam Books. New York. 526 pp.

Pataky, J. K. and M. A. Chandler. 2003. Production of huitlacoche, Ustilago maydis: timing inoculation and controlling pollination. Mycologia 95:1261-1270.

Snetselaar, K.M., M. Carfioli, and K.A. Cordisco. 2001. Pollination can protect maize ovaries from infection by Ustilago maydis, the corn smut fungus. Canadian Journal of Botany 79:1390-1399.

Wang, J., D.W. Holden, and S.A. Leong. 1988. Gene transfer system for the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 85:865-869.

Yang, H., Q. Li, J. Fan, W. Holloman, and N. Pavletich. 2005. The BRCA2 homologue Brh2 nucleates RAD51 filament formation at a dsDNA-ssDNA junction. Nature 433:653-657.

Links to Websites

The MIPS Ustilago maydis Genome DataBase
http://mips.gsf.de/projects/fungi/ustilago.html

Saint Joseph’s University Ustilago Research Page
http://www.sju.edu/biology/ksweb/ustilago/intro.html

Broad Institute Ustilago maydis data base
http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/fungi/ustilago_maydis/

Various recipes for cuitlacoche
http://www.sweetcorn.uiuc.edu/Common-smut/Recipes.htm

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