Definition of Melampsora lini

1. Noun. Fungus causing flax rust.

Exact synonyms: Flax Rust, Flax Rust Fungus
Generic synonyms: Rust, Rust Fungus
Group relationships: Genus Melampsora, Melampsora

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melampsora Lini

Meissner effect
Meister Eckhart
Meitner
Mejico
Mekcase
Mekhitarist
Mekhitarists
Mekong
Mekong River
Mel
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
Mel Gibson
Melampodium
Melampodium leucanthum
Melampsora
Melampsora lini (current term)
Melampsoraceae
Melanchthon
Melanerpes
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Melanesia
Melanesian
Melanesians
Melanie
Melanie Klein
Melanitta
Melanitta nigra
Melanochroi
Melanogrammus
Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Literary usage of Melampsora lini

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

1. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1907)
"FLAX RUST (Melampsora lini, Tul.) The rust is often very destructive to cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum), and is widely distributed in Europe; ..."

2. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1899)
"FLAX RUST (Melampsora lini, Tul.) The rust is often very destructive to cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum), and is widely distributed in Europe; ..."

3. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"Common rust of flax (Melampsora lini) causes an early browning or maturing which is often mistaken for wilt, but may be recognized by the yellow or orange ..."

4. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"Rust (Melampsora lini (DC.), Tul.). Occ., Journ. Mycol., Vol. V, p. 215 (1889). Wilt (Fusarium lini, Bolley). Stevens & Hall, Diseases of Economic Plants, ..."

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