Cronartium
Noun
Meaning
rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns
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The decline of whitebark pine nut due to the inadvertent introduction by man of the invasive, virulent fungi Cronartium ribicola has in turn required grizzlies to seek alternate food sources, many of which are carnivorous.
Retrieved from www.csldiagnostics.co.uk Cereal crops can be devastated in one season and trees that get infected in the main stem within their first five years by the rust Cronartium quercuum often die.