Definition of Cronartium

1. Noun. Rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns.

Exact synonyms: Genus Cronartium
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Melampsoraceae, Melampsoraceae
Member holonyms: Blister Rust, Cronartium Ribicola

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cronartium

Crocodylus niloticus
Crocodylus porosus
Crocq's disease
Crocus sativus
Crocuta
Crocuta crocuta
Croesus
Croft
Crohn
Crohn's disease
Croix de Guerre
Croker
Cromwell
Cromwellian
Cromwellians
Cronartium (current term)
Cronartium ribicola
Crone
Cronenbergian
Crones
Cronos
Cronus
Crooke's granules
Crooke's hyaline change
Crooke's hyaline degeneration
Crookes
Crookes-Hittorf tube
Crookes radiometer
Crookes tube

Literary usage of Cronartium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"It is proposed in the present paper to state very briefly some results secured in more recent investigations. The pine hosts of Cronartium ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"The writer has observed in the Uintah mountains a species of Cronartium on Gentiana and Comandra, but the specimens were lost during the fire before a ..."

3. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"REFERENCES Spaulding, P. Notes on Cronartium ... Clinton, GP Cronartium ... COMANDRA RUST Caused by Cronartium ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"In the eastern United States only two species of Cronartium have so far been recognized: C. Quercus (Brand. ..."

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