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aecium
aecium
See also: æcium
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Noun
aecium (plural aecia or aeciums)
- (mycology) A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic fungi (rusts) that contains chains of aeciospores.
- 1932 August, Ralph Ulysses Cotter, Factors Affecting the Development of the Aecial Stage of Puccinia Graminis, US Dept of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 314, page 29,
- The writer therefore made observations to determine the conditions under which the aecia open and discharge spores most readily.
- 2010, N. K. Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, Volume 1, page 127,
- The receptive hyphae with binucleate cells eventually form the basal cells of the aecium. […] Many cup-like structures, called aecia, appear on the lower surface of leaf.
- 2010, M. S. Patil, Anjali Patil, 16: The Rust Fungi: Systematics, Diseases and Their Management, Arun Arya, Analía Edith Perelló (editors), Management of Fungal Plant Pathogens, page 209,
- It is a heteroecious rust and its aecia are produced on species of Oxalis, namely O. stricta, according to Arthur (1929).
- 1932 August, Ralph Ulysses Cotter, Factors Affecting the Development of the Aecial Stage of Puccinia Graminis, US Dept of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 314, page 29,
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See also
- pycnium