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Tips for Treating Rust in Asparagus Plants
06.06.2023 - 16:33 / gardenerspath.com / Helga George
What Is Asparagus Rust? Puccinia asparagiAsparagus rust is a highly complicated fungal disease with four different stages that can invade your plants without showing symptoms until it is too late.
Cultivars bred to be resistant to this pathogen often lose effectiveness over time. Read on to learn what symptoms to look for and how to treat your infected plants.
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Since its discovery and official documentation in France in 1805, asparagus rust has proven itself to be a pernicious disease that can devastate asparagus crops wherever they are grown.
You can identify rust disease pathogens by the color that gives them their name.
If your asparagus plants start looking like they have a layer of metal rust on them, you know you are in trouble.
This fungal disease can be controlled by some cultural methods, but by the time you see the rust, the infection will already be widespread in your plants.
Life CycleYou know how algebra was the bane of many people’s education? Well, rusts were one of mine. They are just so… complicated!
Members of the Puccinia genus, a single species of rust can have four or five different types of spores that look entirely different and cause differing types of infections.
P. asparagi has four types of spores.
In one way, and one way only, this type of rust is simpler than many other kinds of rusts: It only affects asparagus!
Most other kinds of rusts may also live on alternate hosts, which makes their control even more difficult.
Fall – TeliosporesLet’s start in the fall, since you can easily detect the kinds of spores produced at that stage. They are called teliospores, and they are dark black.
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