flax rust

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Noun1.flax rust - fungus causing flax rustflax rust - fungus causing flax rust    
flax rust fungus, Melampsora lini
rust fungus, rust - any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
genus Melampsora, Melampsora - rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer
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The complementary genetic systems in flax and flax rust. Advanced Genetics, 8: 29-54.
Sources of seedling and adult plant resistance in advanced wheat lines to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici
Nekoma is resistant to all known North America races of flax rust [caused by Melampsora lini (Ehrenb.) Desmaz.].
Registration of 'Nekoma' flax
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