{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Speciesbox | image = Eugeniareinwardtianarust.JPG | image_caption = On ''Eugenia reinwardtiana'' | genus = Austropuccinia | parent_authority = (G.Winter) Beenken | species = psidii | authority = (G. Winter) Beenken (2017)<ref name="Beenken 2017" /> | synonyms = '''Species synonymy:''' *''Puccinia psidii'' <small>G. Winter (1884)</small> *''Uredo rangelii'' <small>J.A. Simpson, K. Thomas & Grgur. (2006)</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz/scientific-names/66c070c6-6ea1-4a04-923a-9d34faf95653 |title=''Austropuccinia psidii'' (G. Winter) Beenken 2017 |date=11 April 2017 |website=biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz |publisher=Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023}}</ref> }}
'''''Austropuccinia''''' is a monotypic genus of rust (a type of plant pathogen) native to South America with the only species '''''Austropuccinia psidii''''', commonly known as '''myrtle rust''', '''guava rust''', or '''ʻōhiʻa rust'''. It affects plants in the family Myrtaceae. It is a member of the fungal complex called the guava rust (''Puccinia psidii'') group.<ref name="Carnegie 2010" /> The spores have a distinctive yellow to orange colour, occasionally encircled by a purple ring. They are found on lesions on new growth including shoots, leaves, buds and fruits. Leaves become twisted and may die. Infections in highly susceptible species may result in the death of the host plant.<ref name="myrtle rust DPI" />
As of late 2013, it is infecting around 179 species in New South Wales and Queensland, from 41 genera (around 46% of genera in the Myrtaceae) in Australia.<ref name="Nursery plan" />
== Importance == ''Austropuccinia psidii'', a myrtle rust or a rust fungus, has a large host range for infection, making disease control and prevention difficult. However, it has been seen to have biological uses. In Florida, the pathogen has been considered as a biological control agent for the invasive Australian plant, ''Melaleuca quinquenervia''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Rayachhetry|first=M. B.|date=3 April 2001|title=Host Range of ''Puccinia psidii'', a Potential Biological Control Agent of ''Melaleuca quinquenervia'' in Florida|url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e68f/6fc30be0dde9643df9a1714abf9a7c082aa2.pdf|journal=Biological Control|volume=22|pages=38–45|doi=10.1006/BCON.2001.0949|s2cid=22877631|access-date=4 January 2021|archive-date=4 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104062540/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e68f/6fc30be0dde9643df9a1714abf9a7c082aa2.pdf}}</ref> ''Melaleuca quinquenervia'' is a weed tree that has invaded south Florida. If left unchecked, it will cause of the most serious threats to the integrity of the native ecosystem, turning marshes in the Everglades into swamps.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Laroche|first1=FB|last2=Ferriter|first2=AP|date=1992|title=The rate of expansion of Melaleuca in South Florida|journal=Journal of Aquatic Plant Management|volume=30|pages=62–65}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zedler|first1=Joy B.|last2=Kercher|first2=Suzanne|date=2004-09-01|title=Causes and Consequences of Invasive Plants in Wetlands: Opportunities, Opportunists, and Outcomes|journal=Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences|volume=23|issue=5|pages=431–452|doi=10.1080/07352680490514673|s2cid=1837791|issn=0735-2689}}</ref> With Autropuccinia psidii, the disease has the ability to disperse inoculum rapidly and attack healthy tissues, causing substantial damage to their hosts. This creates pustules and eventually leads to the death of the invasive species.<ref name=":0" />
''Austropuccinia psidii'' can rapidly spread globally and can impact commercially and ecologically important species of Myrtaeceae such as ''Archirhodomyrtus beckleri'', ''Decaspermum humile'', ''Gossia hillii'' and ''Rhodamnia maideniana,'' that are extremely important in Australia affecting their native forest ecosystems and causing extinctions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pegg|first1=Geoff|last2=Taylor|first2=Tamara|last3=Entwistle|first3=Peter|last4=Guymer|first4=Gordon|last5=Giblin|first5=Fiona|last6=Carnegie|first6=Angus|date=2017-11-21|title=Impact of ''Austropuccinia psidii'' (myrtle rust) on Myrtaceae-rich wet sclerophyll forests in south east Queensland|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=12|issue=11|article-number=e0188058|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0188058|issn=1932-6203|pmc=5697815|pmid=29161305|bibcode=2017PLoSO..1288058P|doi-access=free}}</ref> ''Austropuccinia psidii'' has also been found to also be an invasive species that infects young growing tissues of plants. It infects developed leaves, floral bud, fruits and Coppice.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Winzer|first1=Laura Fernandez|last2=Carnegie|first2=Angus J.|last3=Pegg|first3=Geoff S.|last4=Leishman|first4=Michelle R.|date=2018|title=Impacts of the invasive fungus ''Austropuccinia psidii'' (myrtle rust) on three Australian Myrtaceae species of coastal swamp woodland|journal=Austral Ecology|language=en|volume=43|issue=1|pages=56–68|doi=10.1111/aec.12534|issn=1442-9993|doi-access=free}}</ref> This fungus is a serious problem because of its ability to spread rapidly from its production of a large number of small spores that can be easily dispersed over long distances by wind. These spores can also be dispersed by vectors that include animals such as birds, bats, possums, and insects that have been in contact with the rust spores.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Carnegie|first1=A. J.|last2=Lidbetter|first2=J. R.|last3=Walker|first3=J.|last4=Horwood|first4=M. A.|last5=Tesoriero|first5=L.|last6=Glen|first6=M.|last7=Priest|first7=M. J.|date=2010-09-01|title=''Uredo rangelii'', a taxon in the guava rust complex, newly recorded on Myrtaceae in Australia|journal=Australasian Plant Pathology|language=en|volume=39|issue=5|pages=463–466|doi=10.1071/AP10102|s2cid=6951992|issn=1448-6032}}</ref> ''Austropuccinia psidii'' has a potential to cause damage to natural ecosystems. In Australia, many ecosystems are dominated by ''Eucalyptus'' which is also the dominant tree in most of Hawaii's forests. Infection from ''Autropuccinia psidii'' results in significant changes to the structure, composition, and the function of forests trees on a landscape level. Thus, it greatly impacts biodiversity of other flora and fauna in these ecosystems.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GISD|url=http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/species.php?sc=1538|access-date=2020-12-10|website=www.iucngisd.org|archive-date=4 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104062705/http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/species.php?sc=1538|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== The fungus was first described scientifically in 1884 as ''Puccinia psidii'' by G. Winter,<ref name="Indexfungorum" /> then described again in 2006 as ''Uredo rangelii'' by mycologists J.A. Simpson, K. Thomas, and Cheryl Grgurinovic.<ref name="Simpson 2006" /> Finally in 2017 the names were synonymised by Beenken in a new genus as ''Austropuccinia psidii''<ref name="Beenken 2017" />''.''
==Development and symptoms== Myrtle rust is typically characterised by the appearance of urediniospores on the underside of the leaf, though urediniospores may also be found on the top of the leaf or on young stems.<ref name="Carnegie 2010" /> Initially, the disease appears as small purple or red brown flecks with a faint chlorotic halo on the leaf surface, which coalesce to form bright yellow pustules. As the rust develops, these pustules often fade to a grey brown colour.<ref name="Nursery plan" /> A high degree of pustule coalescence can result in distortion of the leaf.<ref name="Carnegie 2010" /> Myrtle rust also makes plants more susceptible to secondary infections, which may occur within days of the initial appearance of the pustules.<ref name="Nursery plan" />
Favourable conditions that increase the infection rate include: new tissue; high humidity; free water on plant surface for more than 6 hours; moderate temperatures, around 15–25 °C. Low light conditions (minimum of 8 hours) after spore contact can increase germination.<ref name="Nursery plan" />
The main ways in which myrtle rust can be spread are by: the movement of infected plant material, the movement of contaminated equipment, wind, water and gravity, animals, humans and/or vehicles.<ref name="OZ Quarantine" />
Myrtle rust may remain on a single host plant to complete its life cycle, which can be as short as 10–14 days.<ref name="Nursery plan" />
==As an invasive species== {{see also|Biosecurity in Australia}} ''Austropuccinia psidii'' can have very serious consequences to various species of plants in the Myrtaceae. This family includes guava (the original host of this rust in Brazil), eucalyptus, melaleuca, and a number of species native to Hawaii, including some endemic species (found nowhere else on Earth) and at least one important native forest tree. There are numerous strains of the ''Austropuccinia psidii'' rust—some known to be established in Florida, and at least one reported from California and there is concern that strains may exist or develop that could be devastating to ʻōhiʻa (''Metrosideros polymorpha''), one of Hawaii's dominant native trees, a foundation species for many remaining Hawaiian native ecosystems. However currently, the major threat of Puccinia in Hawaii is the massive damage it is doing to ''Eugenia koolauensis'', a federally listed endangered species.
Myrtle rust was first recorded in Australia in mid-2010 and currently poses a major threat to the continent's ecosystem given that almost 80 per cent of Australian native trees are Mytraceae, most indigenous species rely on healthy trees for their survival. Additionally it poses a major threat to Australia's primary industry sector. Its current range includes much of the eastern coastal fringe of the Australian mainland.
Initial detection was in April 2010 in Gosford in the Central Coast region of New South Wales.<ref name="Carnegie 2010" /><ref name="primefacts" /> It was initially quarantined and eradication thought viable. The New South Wales government spent $5 million attempting to eradicate the disease. However, efforts to contain it failed and it spread rapidly north and south along the eastern coast. In response to the increasing threat, a Myrtle Rust National Management Group was formed on 2 July 2010 with the aim of eradication however due to the extent of its spread at that point of time, the group conceded that it had become impossible to eradicate.<ref name="Leigh 2011" /> [[File:Myrtle rust on Ramarama 1.jpg|thumb|Myrtle rust on ramarama (''Lophomyrtus bullata)'', a New Zealand tree.]] By December 2010, it had significantly spread north along the coast and recorded in South East Queensland<ref name="environment.gov.au" /><ref name="gardeners" /> with isolated cases in Far North Queensland cities of Cairns and Townsville. In January 2012, an isolated myrtle rust outbreak was reported in Victoria<ref name="Victoria" /> beginning in Melbourne's southern and eastern suburbs. Initial attempts to contain it were unsuccessful and by April, 2012 it had spread across much of the state via regional cities.
By late 2015 myrtle rust was widespread in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. It has reached Tasmania, where it was detected in garden plants in the north-east in February 2015, and the Northern Territory, where it was detected on Melville Island in May 2015. The Tasmanian government is seeking to contain and eradicate myrtle rust from the state while the Northern Territory government has determined it is not possible to contain or eradicate the pathogen.<ref name="Invasive Species Council" />
In April 2017, New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries reported that myrtle rust had been detected on Raoul Island, off the New Zealand mainland;<ref name="MPI Raoul 2017" /> the following month, it was detected on the mainland, in Kerikeri.<ref name="MPI respond 2017" /> As of 2020 it is spreading in New Zealand, and infecting pōhutukawa (''Metrosideros excelsa''), northern rātā (''Metrosideros robusta''), southern rātā (''Metrosideros umbellata''), ramarama (''Lophomyrtus bullata'') and rohutu ''Lophomyrtus obcordata''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Myrtle rust ravaging East Cape, with ramarama dying and pōhutukawa infected for the first time |first=Michael |last=Neilson |date=3 December 2020 |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/myrtle-rust-ravaging-east-cape-with-ramarama-dying-and-pohutukawa-infected-for-the-first-time/TOZR2IO7PX5OE3CLXNN5I3YRAY/ |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=4 December 2020 |archive-date=4 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104062544/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/myrtle-rust-ravaging-east-cape-with-ramarama-dying-and-pohutukawa-infected-for-the-first-time/TOZR2IO7PX5OE3CLXNN5I3YRAY/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Host genera== Species within the following plant genera have been recorded with the infection:<ref name="hosts" /> {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} *''Acmena'' *''Agonis'' *''Angophora'' *''Asteromyrtus'' *''Austromyrtus'' *''Backhousia'' *''Callistemon'' *''Chamelaucium'' *''Choricarpia'' *''Decaspermum'' *''Eucalyptus'' *''Eugenia'' *''Gossia'' *''Lenwebbia'' *''Leptospermum'' *''Lophomyrtus'' *''Melaleuca'' *''Metrosideros'' *''Myrtus'' *''Pilidiostigma'' *''Rhodamnia'' *''Rhodomyrtus'' *''Ristantia'' *''Stockwellia'' *''Syncarpia'' *''Syzygium'' *''Tristania'' *''Ugni'' *''Uromyrtus'' *''Waterhousea'' *''Xanthostemon'' {{div col end}}
==Environmental impacts== [[File:Myrtle rust on lilly pilly leaves.jpg|thumb|Myrtle rust on lilly pilly leaves.]] Since first being detected in 2010, myrtle rust has spread rapidly with entire plant species now under threat. In Australia, the family Myrtaceae - which includes eucalypts, melaleuca and lilly pilly - is diverse, widespread and important to many native ecosystems.<ref name="Carnegie 2015" />
The impact of myrtle rust has now been seen in a range of forest ecosystems including coastal heath, coastal and river wetlands, sand island ecosystems and subtropical and tropical rainforests. A number of plant species are now at risk of becoming extinct with about 40 plant species considered highly susceptible, such as the endangered ''Rhodamnia angustifolia''.<ref name="CRCBio threat" /><ref name="CRCbio plan" />
Native animals are also likely to suffer significant impacts. Myrtle rust grows in shoots, fruits and flowers, destroying the food relied on by some species of flying foxes, lorikeets and honey eaters. There is the strong possibility that some of these species will become regionally extinct, and their loss could have serious flow-on effects.<ref name="McLeish 2016" />
== Life cycle and disease cycle == Rust fungi typically have complex life cycles that include stages of sexual and asexual reproduction that occasionally occur on phylogenetically distinct host plants. ''Austropuccinia psidii''<nowiki />'s life cycle is quite controversial with one study showing that the rust is autoecious<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Coutinho|first1=T. A.|last2=Wingfield|first2=M. J.|last3=Alfenas|first3=A. C.|last4=Crous|first4=P. W.|date=1998-07-01|title=''Eucalyptus'' Rust: A Disease with the Potential for Serious International Implications|journal=Plant Disease|volume=82|issue=7|pages=819–825|doi=10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.7.819|pmid=30856957|issn=0191-2917|doi-access=}}</ref> while another study finding it to be heteroecious but with an alternate host that has yet to be found.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Carnegie|first1=Angus J.|last2=Giblin|first2=Fiona R.|title=''Austropuccinia psidii'' (myrtle rust)|url=https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/45846#tobiologyAndEcology|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Invasive species Compendium|archive-date=4 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104062654/https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/45846#tobiologyAndEcology|url-status=live}}</ref>
Looking at the fungus as a polycyclic pathogen, Stage I consists of aeciospores inoculating young leaf/shoot/fruit/flower bud. Once infected, aeciospores germinate and penetrate the host by creating a haustoria. Colonies and urediniosori forms after penetration. In Stage II, the production of urediniospores go back to inoculate young leaf/shoot/fruit/flower bud, important for secondary infection and contributing to the polycyclic nature of the pathogen. Stage II is also where urediniospores germinate, and penetration of the host occurs, resulting in the development of an uridiniosori. In Stage III, urediniospores germinate and the host is penetrated with the development of a haustoria. After penetration, colonies are formed and teliosori are developed. Teliosori produce teliospores which can further germinate. Once they're germinated, basidiospores are developed. In Stage IV, basidiospores are spread, inoculating young leaf/shoot/fruit/flower bud. As a result, basidiospores germinate penetrating the host with the development of a haustorium. Aeciosori is formed with the production of aeciospores and the cycle repeats.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1071/ap06088|s2cid=34449802 |title=''Puccinia psidii'': A threat to the Australian environment and economy – a review |year=2007 |last1=Glen |first1=M. |last2=Alfenas |first2=A. C. |last3=Zauza |first3=E. A. V. |last4=Wingfield |first4=M. J. |last5=Mohammed |first5=C. |journal=Australasian Plant Pathology |volume=36 |page=1 }}</ref>
== Infection pathway == Beginning with 1) extracellular pre-penetration processes (adhesion, germination, and appressorium formation 2) intercellular post-penetration processes (nutrient acquisition, ETS, ETI) and 3) dispersal of newly formed uredospores (reproduction and sporulation).<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Chock|first=M.K.|title=The global threat of Myrtle rust (''Austropuccinia psidii''): Future prospects for control and breeding resistance in susceptible hosts|journal=Crop Protection|year=2020|language=en-US|volume=136|article-number=105176|doi=10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105176|s2cid=218951763 |issn=0261-2194}}</ref>
To infect the plant, uredospores must adhere to the leaf surface which can be enhanced by the secretion of extracellular compounds. Both physical and chemical cues by neutralized spore germination inhibitors induces germination and break dormancy. After the penetration of urediniospores by a combination of extracellular secretions and physical force, the germ tube is formed and elongated in a favorable area fueled by spore protein reserves from an appressorium.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Silva|first1=Renata Ruiz|last2=Silva|first2=André Costa da|last3=Rodella|first3=Roberto Antônio|last4=Serrão|first4=José Eduardo|last5=Zanuncio|first5=José Cola|last6=Furtado|first6=Edson Luiz|date=2017|title=Pre-Infection Stages of ''Austropuccinia psidii'' in the Epidermis of ''Eucalyptus'' Hybrid Leaves with Different Resistance Levels|journal=Forests|language=en|volume=8|issue=10|page=362|doi=10.3390/f8100362|doi-access=free|hdl=11449/175432|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Once the hyphae is within the cell apoplast, the hyphae penetrates a host mesophyll cell to form a haustoria to acquire nutrients and suppress plant defenses. The hyphae and haustoria continually secrete effectors prevent plant resistance. Chemical signaling between plant and pathogen are continuously occurring to determine infection or any defense responses to the pathogen. Nutrient acquisition fuels pathogen growth by the accumulation of carbon from the host plant. This results in sporulation where the hyphae move toward plant surfaces to make urediniospores and to create a sori that ruptures through the dermal surface for penetration and infection.<ref name=":1" />
==Management== The original plan to eradicate myrtle rust from Australia was declared to be infeasible by the Myrtle Rust National Management Group in December 2010. The Myrtle Rust Response Plan was cancelled and focus was placed on minimising the spread and the impacts on myrtle rust. The Australian Government, through the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, established the Myrtle Rust Coordination Group to manage the investment of $1.5 million of research funding.<ref name="Nursery plan" /> In 2016, The National Environmental Science Programme (http://www.environment.gov.au/science/nesp) hosted a national workshop on myrtle rust to discuss research findings and future management options. Participants included the Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, state and federal agencies, and botanical and plant conservation experts. Discussions centred around the impact on native species in Australia. A key outcome of the workshop included agreement that there is a need for a nationally coordinated approach through a long-term National Action Plan which aims to ensure that no species or ecosystems are lost to its impact.<ref name="CRCbio plan" />
Practical measures to minimise the risk of increasing the distribution of myrtle rust include: not moving plant matter from one site to another; minimising pathogen spread by arriving and leaving each site clean of the pathogen, and avoiding areas that may contain myrtle rust-infected plant matter.<ref name="OZ Quarantine" />
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==External links== {{Commons category|Uredo rangelii}} *{{IndexFungorum|521674}} *[https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/biosecurity/ecosystem-resilience/beyond-myrtle-rust/ 'Beyond Myrtle Rust' New Zealand Research programme] * 2010. Loope, Lloyd L. [https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1082/ A Summary of Information on the Rust ''Puccinia psidii'' Winter (Guava Rust) with Emphasis on Means to Prevent Introduction of Additional Strains to Hawaii]. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1082. * '''[http://www.hear.org/species/puccinia_psidii/ ''Puccinia psidii'' species information]''' from the [http://www.hear.org/ Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR)] * 2007. Eloise M. Killgore & Ronald A. Heu [https://hdoa.hawaii.gov/pi/files/2013/01/npa05-04-ohiarust.pdf Ohia Rust]
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Category:Pucciniales Category:Monotypic fungus genera Category:Taxa described in 2017