However, Ts 06 urediniospores, germ tubes, intercellular hyphae, haustorial mother cells, and haustoria are all typically dikaryotic (Supplementary Figure 1). During the telial stage, unmatured ...

Typically, they resemble a mass of yellow or orange stems with, at most, minute vestigial scale-like leaves, growing on their plant hosts (Hibberd et al. 1998). They do not have roots, and they absorb ...