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Species diversity, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Gymnosporangium in China.
Mycologia - 1 Jan 2000
Tao Si-Qi, Cao Bin, Kakishima Makoto, Liang Ying-Mei
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Gymnosporangium is a group of plant fungal pathogens that cause rust diseases on many economically important fruit trees. Most Gymnosporangium are heteroecious and demicyclic, producing four morphologically diverse spore stages on two taxonomically unrelated host plants, the Cupressaceae and Rosaceae. The complex life cycle and heteroecism make it difficult to investigate the species within Gymnosporangium. To...
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