STEM RUST


Meaning of STEM RUST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1899

1. : a rust attacking the stem of a plant ; especially : a destructive disease especially of wheat caused by a rust fungus ( Puccinia graminis ) which produces reddish-brown lesions in the uredospore stage and black lesions in the teliospore stage and has any of several plants of the barberry family as an intermediate host

2. : the fungus causing stem rust

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.