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Wheat stem rust

Puccinia graminis

Symptoms

Brick-red to reddish-brown, elongated, powdery pustules that rupture the epidermis on stems, leaf sheaths and both leaf surfaces; pustules feel rough and shed rusty spores; late in the season they turn black. Severe attack lodges plants and shrivels grain.

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