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stem rust

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stem rust [′stem ‚rəst]
(plant pathology)
Any of several fungus diseases, especially of grasses, affecting the stem and marked by black or reddish-brown lesions.


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Scientists have long speculated that Asian soybean rust might follow the same northerly corridor that southern rust of corn, stem rust of wheat and common rust of corn take from Mexico to Minnesota and as far north as Canada.
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