Reproductive biology and evidence for water dispersal of teliospores in Chrysomyxa weirii, a microcyclic spruce needle rust

Mycologia

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 754-763

  Crane, Patricia E ^a,b   Hiratsuka, Yasuyuki ^b   Currah, Randolph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basidium; Cytology; Microcyclic rust; Picea; Splash dispersal; Uredinales

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012339482     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761432     Document Type: Article

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