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Definition of Heteroecism
1. Noun. (mycology) Development of different stages of the same growth on different host?plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heteroecism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heteroecism
Literary usage of Heteroecism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"This condition of things is known as heteroecism, and is illustrated in rust or
mildew of wheat, where one stage of the fungus flourishes on the leaves of ..."
2. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"heteroecism is better developed in rusts than in any other group of living organisms,
... There are more than 150 cases of heteroecism which have been ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... embryos are numerous and elaborate, and many complex cases of larval migration
and complicated cases of heteroecism occur. (Sec TREMATODE and TAPEWORM. ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Representative heteroecism is illustrated by the wheat rust, ... Thus heteroecism
is seen to be in part facultative; it is obligate, however, ..."
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