________ is a plant diseases caused by fungi.

✅ Explanation:
-Plant diseases (wheat, sugarcane, rice, potato, apple, orange, and others) are caused by a variety of microorganisms.
-Rust of wheat is a plant disease caused by fungi.
-Rust of wheat disease reduces the yield of crops.
-Their mode of transmission is through air and seeds.
-They can be controlled by using chemicals that kill the microbes.
-Wheat rust is a destructive fungal disease of wheat caused by a fungus (such as Puccinia graminis).
-Because the pathogen overwinters in temperate zones, it is damaging to winter wheat.
-Infections can cause up to a 20% yield loss, which is exacerbated by dying leaves that feed the fungus.