MORPHOLOG y. 



407a. Teleutcspores the last stage of the fungus in the season. The teleu- 

 tospores are developed late in the season, or late in the development of the 



host plant (in this case the 

 wheat is the host). They 

 then rest during the winter. 

 In the spring under favor- 

 able conditions each cell of 

 the teleutospore germi- 

 nates, producing a short 

 mycelium called a promy- 

 celium, as shown in figs. 

 222, 223. This promy- 

 celium is usually divided 

 into four cells. From each 

 cell a short, pointed pro- 

 cess is formed called a 

 <l sterigma" Through this 

 the protoplasm moves and 



Fig ' 220> Fi 8- 221 ' forms a small gonidium on 



Germinating uredospore of Germ tube entering the . ., , 



wheat rust. (After Marshall- leaf through a stoma. the end, sometimes called 



a sporidium. ' 



408. How the fungus gets from the wheat back to the barberry. If these 

 sporidia from the teleutospores are carried by the wind so that they lodge on 



Fig. 222. Fig. 223. 



Teleutospore germi- Promycelium of ger- 

 natmg, forming promy- initiating teleutospore, 

 cehum. forming sporidia. 



Figs. 222-224. Puccinia graminis (wheat rust) 



Fi 3 . 224. 



Germinating sporidia entering leat 

 of barberry by mycelium. 



(After Marshall-Ward.) 



