Lexic.us

Definition of Apple rust

1. Noun. Rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Rust

Literary usage of Apple rust

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"CEDAR APPLES AND apple rust Gymnosporangium macropus Lk. | This is one of the most widespread and economically important of this genus. ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... cedar rust, apple rust. ... another species much like the foregoing, is the common cause of apple rust in the East. ..."

3. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"This disease is variously known as cedar-rust, cedar-rust of apple, cedar-apple, apple-rust and cedar-flowers. It affects not only the apple and wild crab, ..."

4. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"Giddings, NJ, and Berg, A. apple rust. West Virginia Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. ... Pammel, LH The cedar apple fungi and apple rust in Iowa, Iowa Agr. Exp. Sta. ..."

5. Botany by Wilfred William Robbins, John Nathan Martin (1919)
"Cedar Apples and apple rust (Gymnosporangium).1 — There are several Rusts belonging to this ... 105-113, Nebraska Agr. Exp. Sta., 1909. apple rust and its ..."

6. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1900)
"agricultural papers a question that some one addressed to Mr. Van Deman, asking what caused apple rust, and the reply was that we would not find apple rust ..."

7. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"Cedar Apples and apple rust (Gymnosporangium).i — There are several Rusts ... apple rust and its Control in Wisconsin. Bulletin 257, Wisconsin Agr. Exp. ..."

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