blister rust in English

noun

1

any of several destructive diseases of pine trees caused by fungi of the genus Conartium , resulting in orange blisters on the bark and tips of branches.

An invasive disease called blister rust has decimated whitebark pines in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and may well cause the trees to disappear altogether.

Use "blister rust" in a sentence

1. Like other European and Asian white pines, Siberian pine is very resistant to white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola).

2. Like other European and Asian white pines, Swiss pine is very resistant to white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola).

3. The white-pine blister rust fungus, Cronartium ribicola Fisch. in Rabenh., continues to spread in North America, utilizing various aecial (primary) and telial (alternate) hosts, some of which have only recently been discovered.

4. Black Currants (Blackcurrants) Blackcomb (Ojebyn x Titania) Blackcomb is a high yielding new variety that has high levels of resistance to foliar diseases - mildew, White Pine Blister Rust - , vigorous growth habit and tolerance to late spring frost

5. The Black currants will make an important contribution to our line." The federal government had banned the growing of black and red currants in 1911 when the burgeoning logging industry put pressure on lawmakers to eliminate the currants because they were thought to be an intermediate host of white pine blister rust.

6. Black Currant (Ribes nigrum) is a cold-climate shrub native to northern Europe and Asia, and have been in cultivation for nearly 500 years.Widely grown throughout Europe, Black currants are lesser known in the United States, largely due to a ban on currant farming in the early 1900s, when white blister rust – vectored by Black currants – threatened the U.S