The expression pattern of 90 bean genes upon rust infection shares several features with other legumes infected by biotrophic fungi.
Among the 136 metabolic pathways identified as active in infected white pine needles, 90 of them were affected significantly by rust infection.
Mint (and other herbs) can also get a severe rust infection.
N nutrition is known to affect the level of stripe rust infection, with higher N associated with increased disease severity.
Parsimonious combinations of historically important predictors of blister rust provided effective logistic models (AUC = 0.83) for predicting blister rust infection in whitebark pines at our sites.
Only the Rocky Mountain population has shown blister rust infection, though experts say it is only a matter of time before it reaches all groves.
Results indicate that wild oat is the superior competitor at the seedling stage; however, early rust infection greatly reduces fitness of wild oats, causing an increased fitness for stipa.
The problem is that a rust infection in the leaves means they can no longer photosynthesize efficiently.
In contrast, whilst BTH inhibited rust infection, it promoted beetle attack.
In contrast, prior rust infection should induce SA-dependent pathways and increase the attractiveness of the plant to beetles.
There was evidence for induced resistance, with lower probability and later incidence of attack by beetles in JA-induced plants and of rust infection in SA-induced plants.
