Rust’s reemergence Wheat rust’s current rampage began more than a decade ago. In October of 1998, a plant breeder noticed a stem rust infection on wheat growing in his nursery at Kalengyere ...

Rust fungi bounce back and forth between these ... leaf litter drifts now if you need to liberate them. Standing dead plant stems can serve as natural support stakes for new growth, corralling ...

Finally, cedar quince rust affects many plants in the rose family ... are the orange gummy blobs on the branches along the stems. However, these are much smaller than the other two.

This type of stem growth can occur for a few reasons. The two most common ones are simple: When a plant is traumatized, it can take it out on the stem. In other words, the stem is like a diary of ...

You can spot myrtle rust by its clusters of bright yellow powdery spores on the new leaves, fruits, flowers or stems of plants in the myrtle family. Each cluster has thousands of spores which can ...

Myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii), which ... and kills off the growing tips — the new leaves, stems, flowers and fruit. The plant is forced to put more energy into new growth, but if the ...