Tag Archives | Rust Fungi

In this article we will discuss about the economic importance of rust fungi. The order included a group of some 4,500 species of highly specialized and economically most important internal parasites which attack higher plants and sometimes the ferns. They are economically important because majority of them cause disease of cereals and other crops resulting in enormous losses. In spite [...]

In this article we will discuss about the life cycle and the spore stage of rust fungi. Some of the rusts need two different unrelated hosts to complete their life cycles. These are known as Heteroecious (Hetero = different; cion = Home) rusts and the phenomenon exhibited by them is called Heteroecism. An example of heteroecious rust is Puccinia graminis [...]