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Puccinia agropyri

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Puccinia agropyri

Rust fungi like this one have more complex life cycles than most other kinds of organisms. Many rusts infect two different hosts—wheat and barberry, for example—and have up to five kinds of fruiting bodies.

Image by Kent Loeffler, Photographer, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
Text by Kathie T. Hodge,
Director, Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium.

© Cornell University.

A Gallery of images of the Fungi of China collection

Our art/science exhibit was displayed in Cornell's Mann Library during the Summer of 2005. That's about when we initiated the project of repatriating parts of this historically important collection. You can read our story here.