Good fungus may one day help save plants from bad fungus like deadly myrtle rust disease
- Written by Michelle Moffitt, Associate Professor in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
Steven Conaway, Greenwich Land Trust, Bugwood.org, CC BYWhat do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common?
They are all susceptible to parasitic rust diseases caused by fungi. Plant rust disease can easily be spotted by the characteristic orange or yellow spores that cover plant leaves, making them look rusty.
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