What is rust cycle?
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Some points on rust cycle are as follows:-
1. Professor K.C. Mehta was the first one to discover rust cycle. He worked very hard for this achievement.
2. Aeciospores is the first step of starting rust disease in the wheat plants.
3. Aeciospores is the cause of primary infection in the wheat plant.
4. While uredospores are responsible for the secondary infection in them.
5. Rust cycle is the word which is used for showing whole life cycle of puccinia.
6. Primary host in this is wheat & Barberry is the lateral host in rust cycle.
Answer:
Heteroecious rust fungi require two unrelated hosts to complete their life cycle, with the primary host being infected by aeciospores and the alternate host being infected by basidiospores. This can be contrasted with an autoecious fungus which can complete all parts of its life cycle on a single host species.
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