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Powdery mildew of barley: diseased plants (APS)
Powdery mildew of barley: close-up showing cleistothecia (APS)
Crown rust on barley (APS). This disease is more common on oats.
Crown rust on barley: telial stage (APS). Telial stages of all cereal leaf rusts look similar.
Blackberry rust: telial stage
Blackberry rust: telial stage close-up
Two different rusts on coltsfoot, Puccinia poarum (aecia) and Coleosporium tussilaginis (uredia)
Two different rusts on coltsfoot: close-up
Aecia of Puccinia poarum on coltsfoot
Groundnut (peanut) rust page at North Carolina State University
Illustrations of different degrees of resistance to rusts in wheat (APS)
Septoria blotch of barley (APS) showing pycnidia of the fungus; Septoria blotch of wheat looks almost identical.
Blighted potato leaf, upper (adaxial) side
Blighted potato leaf, lower (abaxial) side
Rhizoctonia root rot of barley: root symptoms (APS)
Rhizoctonia root rot of barley: field with areas of diseased plants (APS)
Take-all of wheat: root symptoms (APS)
Take-all of wheat: white heads (APS)
Take-all of wheat: runner hyphae of Gaeumannomyces graminis growing on wheat root (APS)
Fusarium wilt of alfalfa: vascular system discoloration (APS)
Verticillium wilt of alfalfa: wilting symptoms (APS)
Life cycle of Phytophthora infestans, the potato late blight pathogen at North Carolina State University, with photographs of sporangia, zoospores, and oospores.
Typical single-celled, roughly spherical ascospores in an ascus (APS)
Leptosphaerulina (APS), illustrating multicellular ascospores in asci that protrude from the dark-coloured fruiting body, which is called a pseudothecium (the asci would normally be inside the pseudothecium, but the pseudothecium has been broken open).
Aster yellows phytoplasma (APS)
Barley yellow dwarf virus: infected wheat plants (APS)
Barley yellow dwarf virus: infected wheat leaves (APS)
Soybean mosaic virus: classic mosaic symptoms (APS)
Papaya ringspot virus: illustrated article on transgenic disease-resistant plants