4. Life cycle of wheat stem rust – Puccinia
graminis tritici
Systemic position
Kingdom – Fungi
Class – Pucciniomycetes
Order – Pucciniales
Family – Pucciniaceae
Genus – Puccinia
Species - graminis
5. Symptoms – Orange to red colour nlister like
pastules appers on the surface of leaf and stems
6. Stage Spores Colour Appearance
O Pycniospores Hyaline Upper
I Aeciospores Yellow Lower
II Uredospores Golden brown Primary host
III Teliospores Black Primary host
IV Basidiospores Hyaline Soil debris
7. Life cycle
When wheat crop attains maturity the uredinia appears on rut
pustules and developed as urediniospores, these are single celled,
which contains enormous amount of food reserves for long distance
dissemination, at the end of the wheat season it starts to produce
less urediniospores and more teiospores
8. Telia are black, elongated, bi-celled, dark brown in colour, it is a resting spore
which represents sexual apparatus of the fungus in which karyogamy ad meiosis
takes place, when favourable conditions occurs its germinate and produce
basidispores of opposite mating types
9. Types of teliospores
Types of teliospore Example
Single celled teliospore Uromyces
Double celled teliospore Puccinia
Multicelled teliopsore Phragmidium
Durnip shaped uredospore Hemileia
Kidney shaped teliospore
Crust like telispore Melampsora
Parachute like teliospore Ravenelia
10. Basidiospores infect barberry but not wheat, several basidiospores produce flask shaped
pycnium. Several pycnia of opposite mating types are generally formed in the same leaf. On the
corresponding to the lower surface it produce aecia
11. Aeciospores it contains reserve food material, the aeciopsores can’t germinate on berberry and
germinate on wheat leaf.
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13. Types of rust
Autoecious rust – Completes its entire life cycle in a single host
Heteroecious rust - Requires genetically two hosts to complete their life cycle
Autoecious macrocyclic rust – Eg – B – Bean rust
F – Flax rust
S - Sunflower rust
S - Safflower rust
Autoecious demicyclic rust – Eg – Rubus orange rust – Gymnoconia peckiana
Heteroecious macrocyclic – Eg – Wheat stem rust – Puccinia graminis tritici
White pine blister blight – Cronartium rubicola
Heteroecious demicyclic – Eg – Cedar apple rust – Gymnosporangium juniperi Viriginianae