aecial

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aecial (not comparable)

  1. (mycology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling an aecium.
    • 1984, D. E. Harder, 11: Developmental Ultrastructure of Hyphae and Spores, William Bushnell, Alan P. Roelfs (editors), The Cereal Rusts: Origins, Volume I: Specificity, Structure, and Physiology, page 355,
      In the inner wall facing the aecial cavity, the primary wall materials surrounding the processes disintegrate, partially exposing them.
    • 1996, George Newcombe, “Chapter 10: The specificity of fungal pathogens of Populus”, in Reinhard Friedrich Stettler, editor, Biology of Populus and Its Implications for Management and Conservation, page 226:
      Aecial hosts are primarily conifers. Damage to some aecial hosts may also be considered important, as in pine twist rust caused by M.[Melampsora] pinitorqua Rostrup.
    • 1998, G. Rangaswami, A. Mahadevan, Diseases of Crop Plants in India, 4th edition, page 192:
      The uredo- and teleuto-stages occur on wheat, barley and some grasses and the pycnidial and aecial stages on species of Berberis and Mahonia, the alternate hosts.
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