stem rust

stem rust
Plant Pathol.
1. any of several fungal diseases of plants affecting the stems, esp. a disease of wheat and other grasses characterized by pustules of red and then black spores.
2. any of the fungi causing such a disease.
[1915-20]

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Universalium. 2010.

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