Wheat yellow rust

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Wheat yellow rust
Yellow rust on the leaves of winter triticale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Urediniomycetes
Subclass:	Incertae sedis
Order:	Uredinales
Family:	Pucciniastraceae
Genus:	Puccinia
Species:	P. striiformis
Form:	P. s. f. sp. tritici
Trinomial name
Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Westend., (1854)
Synonyms
Dicaeoma glumarum Puccinia glumarum Puccinia rubigo-vera Puccinia straminis Puccinia striiformis Trichobasis glumarum Uredo glumarum

Wheat yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici), also known as wheat stripe rust, is one of the three major wheat rust diseases, along with stem rust of wheat (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici) and leaf rust (Puccinia triticina f.sp. tritici).