Rust fungi have a complex life cycle (see Littlefield 1981) and produce different spore forms. The basidiospores, aeciospores and uredospores develop highly specialized infection structures in order to penetrate into the leaf. The germ tune of the dikaryotic uredospore follows the array of wax crystals on the cuticle in a typical way and grows towards a stoma (Fig la). When the tip of the germ ...

During the study on rust mycobiota of Central Alborz, several rust infected specimens belonging to Salicaceae family including Populus and Salix species were investigated. Populus nigra, P. euphratica, Saix alba and S. excelsa were infected by various Melampsora species. Uredinial (II) and telial (III) stages of rust were present on infected plants. According to morphological characters, five f...

In this study, we analyzed distribution of species the genus Gymnosporangium in mountain regions Uzbekistan, including Western Tien Shan and Pamir-Alay. Four (G. confusum, G. sabinae, fusisporum, turkestanicum) are reported for Uzbekistan. The telial hosts these rust fungi Juniperus, while aecial Uzbekistan representatives genera Cotoneaster, Crataegus, Sorbus, Pyrus (all Rosaceae). It has been...

BACKGROUND Despite the fact that coffee rust was first investigated scientifically more than a century ago, and that the disease is one of the major constraints to coffee production--constantly changing the socio-economic and historical landscape of the crop--critical aspects of the life cycle of the pathogen, Hemileia vastatrix, remain unclear. The asexual urediniospores are regarded as the on...