Lentil, as an economical source of protein, minerals and vitamins, plays important role in nutritional security of the common man. Grown mainly in West Asia, North Africa (WANA) region and South Asia, it suffers from several biotic stresses such as wilt, rust, blight and broomrape. Lentil rust caused by autoecious fungus Uromyces viciae fabae (Pers.) Schroet is a serious lentil disease in Alger...

Abstract Wheat rusts, including stripe, leaf, and stem are severe wheat diseases cause huge yield loss in China annually. Benefiting from utilizing the genetic resistance varieties, rust has been effectively controlled since 1970s; however, stripe leaf rusts still threating production due to lack of effective agricultural regulations. This review summarizes research advances on physiology, epid...

Eight cyperaceous Puccinia and Uromyces, viz. P. cariciola, P. conclusa, P. cyperi, P. eriophori, P. scirpi and Uromyces lineolatus subsp. lineolalus are reported as new to Iran. The uredinial stage of P. dioicae is reported as a new stage for this rust in Iran. Hosts new to P. eriophori are also given. Included is a key to the cyperaceous rust species in Iran.

ABSTRACT Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) was inoculated with urediniospores of Puccinia graminis subsp. graminicola at four stages of reproductive tiller development. All developmental stages, from expansion of the penultimate leaf through anthesis, were equally susceptible to infection measured as number of pustules per total inoculated plant area. However, within each stage from boot thro...

rust caused by phakopsora pachyrhizi syd. is a major constraint to soybean product in asia. early detection and possibilities of controlling plant diseases by the integration of several image processing methods has been the subject of extensive research. the main contribution of this paper is to present different methodologies for quantitatively detecting soybean rust at each stage of disease d...

Brown (common) rust has recently been prevalent in the South African sugar industry, particularly on N29, a sugarcane variety that is often severely affected by the disease. Cool, moist conditions have favoured the development of rust, but there has been a tendency for more severe infections to be associated with well grown sugarcane. To investigate this observation, two parallel rows, one with...

Rusts are important pathogens of angiosperms and gymnosperms including cereal crops and forest trees. With respect to cereals, rust fungi are among the most important pathogens. Cereal rusts are heteroecious and macrocyclic requiring two taxonomically unrelated hosts to complete a five spore stage life cycle. Cereal rust fungi are highly variable for virulence and molecular polymorphism. Leaf r...