a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
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Anthony\\\'s Fire was caused by ergot, a fungus that grows on damp rye. 圣安東尼之焰由麥角菌引起，這是一種生長在黑麥上的霉菌。
The paper studied ferment condition of Claviceps paspali to producing ergot alkali. 研究了雀稗麥角菌產麥角堿發酵條件。