Directory of Uredinales Resources

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Uredinales is an order of basidiomycotic fungi. Many of the members of this order are rusts which are important pathogens of plants including cereals.

Resources in This Category

• Coleosporium tussilaginis (a rust fungus)

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r150267.htm
  Photographs of this species, some enlarged, growing on the underside of leaves and magnified images of the uredospores.

• Cronartiaceae

  http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/family.cfm?id=150
  Photographs of members of this family of heteroecious rusts which have two alternating hosts, typically a pine and a flowering plant.

• Cumminsiella mirabilissima

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r150950.htm
  Many photographs, some enlarged or magnified, of this rust fungus.

• Gymnosporangium clavipes

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/IW000013.aspx
  Information on this pathogen which alternates between two host species, and photograph of it erupting from infected cedar tissue after rain.

• Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/may99.html
  An illustrated article by Tom Volk on this rust fungus which is parasitic on the eastern red cedar and the apple tree, alternating between these two hosts.

• Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/rust044.aspx
  Spermogonia of this species that causes cedar-apple rust on the upper side of an apple leaf and aecia of the fungus on the lower side.

• Milesina dieteliana

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159169.htm
  Photographs of this rust fungus which infects ferns, and magnified images of the uredospores.

• Miyagia pseudosphaeria

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/june_87-6-1.aspx
  Microscopic image showing the cross section of a uredinium.

• Phakopsora pachyrhizi

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/IW000065.aspx
  Microscopic image showing an appressorium arising from a germinating urediniospore.

• Phleogena faginea

  http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Phleogena_faginea.htm
  Several enlarged photographs of these minute fungi.

• Puccinia

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISC2007/may2007.htm
  Two magnified images of the fruiting bodies of Puccinia species which grow as parasites on foliage.

• Puccinia antirrhini (Snapdragon Rust)

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r159680.htm
  Several photographs of this species which infects antirrhinums, and microscopic images of the uredospores.

• Puccinia coronata

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/barley65.aspx
  Image of teliospores.

• Puccinia graminis

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Puc_pi_e.html
  Microscopic image.

• Puccinia graminis

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Puc_picn.html
  Microscopic image.

• Puccinia graminis

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Puc_tel.html
  Microscopic image.

• Puccinia graminis

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Puc_ure.html
  Microscopic image.

• Puccinia graminis

  http://www.dipbot.unict.it/sistematica/Puc_eci.html
  Microscopic image of this species on a Berberis leaf.

• Puccinia graminis

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/PucciniaGraminis.aspx
  Image showing the two-celled teliospores of this species which causes stem rust of wheat.

• Puccinia melanocephala

  http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/rust32.aspx
  Image of the urediniospores.

• Pucciniaceae

  http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Mushrooms/Basidio/Pucciniaceae.html
  Photographs of several species of Puccinia, Uromyces pisi-sativi and Uromyces dactylidis.

• Rust

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uredinales
  Information from Wikipedia on the Uredinales, plant parasites which mainly cause foliar infections.

 

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