| Date | 1755 |
| Author | Tillet |
| Contribution | Reported experimental evidence of the contagiousness of wheat bunt. |
| Reference | Ainsworth |
| Notes | Mathieu Tillet, using numerous plots of wheat, found evidence that bunt was transmitted by black dust from diseased wheat plants. He was unclear about the way in which the spores resulted in disease. [The bunt fungus was later named Tilletia.] |
| Category | Causation |
| Pathogen Class | Fungi |
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