Gymnosporangium Species – An Important Issue of Plant Protection
Journal: Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Section B Natural Exact and Applied Sciences
Year: 2017

Abstract Rusts (Fungi, Basidiomycota, Pucciniomycotina, Pucciniomycetes, Pucciniales) are one of the most important causal agents of diseases and they are infecting many plants including cereals and field crops, vegetables, trees and many ornamentals. They have been studied for a long time and have economic importance among the plant diseases caused by agents of different species of fungi. In Europe, thirteen rust genera have been reported, of which the genus Gymnosporangium is the second larges