red rust stage!
- on the wheat (P. graminis)
aeciospores infect wheat and form uredia that contain urediospores (orangish-brown pustules on the wheat)
urediospores will reinfect wheat to produce more uredia/urediospores
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telium stage
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black rust stage!
- on wheat
at the end of the summer, uredia starts to produce teliospores
over time the uredium gradually becomes a telium, producing more teliospores
teliospores undergo karyogamy and over winter
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Pine Blister Rust
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C. quercinum
- heteroecious - primary host = white pine, secondary host = oak
- 2 year life cycle
- aecium (destructive stage) and sporangium on the primary host
- uredia and telia on the secondary host
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Cedar Apple Rust
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G. juniperi
- heteroecious - primary host = juniper/cedar, secondary host = apple
- demicyclic (missing a stage) - NO UREDIA
- 2 year life cycle
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Rust of Roses
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P. speciosum
- autoecious - 1 host, only roses
- macrocyclic - contains all 4 life cycle stage (aecia, uredia, telia, basidiospores)
- urediospores cause the formation of telia that appear as cankers or sori on the stems of the roses
oak passes basidiospores to the pine needles in the fall
- spermatia infect pine stems
- aeciospores are produce and infect oak leaves the following spring
- uredia
- telia
- teliospores
- teliospores go through karyogamy and then meiosis to produce basidiospores
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Crown Rust (oats)
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P. coronata
- heteroecious - primary host = oats, secondary host = buckthorn
- uredia and telia are the destructive phases
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major differences between Uredinales (rusts) and Ustilaginales (smuts)
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rusts:
- no clamp connections
- heteroecious
- obligate biotroph (will extract their nutrients from living plant tissue only)
- teliospores in telial sori
smuts:
- clamp connections are common
- autoecious
- facultative biotroph (if living plant tissue is unavailable it can feed in other ways)
- teliospores will replace the host organs
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aecium stage
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- on barberry
upside-down sac/cup-shaped structure on the lower surface of the barberry leaf
- produces aeciospores that burst out and get dispersed in the wind
aeciospores are the infective stage
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spermogonium stage
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- on barberry
produces sex organs on the upper surface of the barberry leaf that produces spermatia
- spermatia are flask-shaped and if one mating type adheres to the receptive hyphae of the opposite mating type it will start the dikaryon stage of the life cycle
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Cedar Apple Rust life cycle
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year 1:
- telial horns on cedar produce teliospores
- teliospores germinate and produce basidiospores (n) that infect apples in May
- basidospores go through plasmogamy to produce aecia on apples
- aeciospores from the apples infect the juniper/cedar in late summer or fall
year 2:
- aeciospore infection cause telial galls to form in the following spring
- cedar galls (telial galls) produce telial horns
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basidiospore release stage
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in the following spring, meiosis occurs in the teliospores and produce a pro-mycelium (basidium)
the basidia produce basidiospores of 2 mating types that infect barberry leaves