Aecial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Aecial is an adjective meaning (mycology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling an aecium.
Meaning
(mycology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling an aecium.
Example Sentences
The uredo- and teleuto-stages occur on wheat, barley and some grasses and the pycnidial and aecial stages on species of Berberis and Mahonia, the alternate hosts.
Aecial hosts are primarily conifers. Damage to some aecial hosts may also be considered important, as in pine twist rust caused by M.^([Melampsora]) pinitorqua Rostrup.
1984, D. E. Harder, 11: Developmental Ultrastructure of Hyphae and Spores, William Bushnell, Alan P. Roelfs (editors), The Cereal Rusts: Origins, Volume I: Specificity, Structure, and Physiology, page 355, In the inner wall facing the aecial cavity, the primary wall materials surrounding the processes disintegrate, partially exposing them.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mycelial, mycelioid, acanthaceous, hyphaelike, myceloid, auriculariaceous.
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