WSR Pustules Through Seedling Leaf (IMAGE)

University of Sydney

WSR Pustules Through Seedling Leaf

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Superficially, stem rust looks like another rust pathogen of wheat, leaf rust. The two can be distinguished on leaves, with leaf rust forming pustules on one side of the leaf only, and stem rust producing pustules that appear on both leaf surfaces.

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Credit Karanjeet Sandhu, University of Sydney.

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