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| | Rust Diseases of Several Legumes and Corn in Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Rust fungi are also characterized by having complex life cycles, especially in temperate regions of the world (Plate 1). |
 | | Two of the rust fungus stages, the spermatial and aecial, are associated with the portion of the fungus life cycle in which mating types merge and reassociate genetic material. |
 | | Rust symptoms begin as whitish, minute, slightly raised pustules.Later, these pustules become the distinct, circular, reddish-brown spots on the under side of leaves that readily identify the disease (Plate 2). |
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