Unlike Wheat Rust, which is an airborne disease spreading through wind-blown spores during the cropping season, Loose Smut of Wheat is characterized as:

Options:

• A: An externally seed-borne disease where spores survive on the seed coat.
• B: An internally seed-borne disease where the pathogen survives as dormant mycelium inside the embryo of the seed.
• C: A soil-borne disease where the pathogen survives indefinitely in the rhizosphere.
• D: An insect-vectored disease transmitted exclusively by aphids during flowering.

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