Tranzschel's law

English

Etymology

Named after Russian botanist and mycologist Vladimir Andreevich Tranzschel.

Proper noun

Tranzschel's law

  1. (mycology) A law stating that telia of microcyclic species of rust fungi that are descendants of macrocyclic, heteroecious rusts simulate aecia of the ancestral macrocyclic rust and occur on the aecial host of the latter.
    • 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 252:
      It should be noted that Tranzschel's law does not necessarily apply to autoecious macro- or demicyclic rusts derived from heteroecious species.
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