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News Myrtle rust reducing symptoms with double stranded RNA. Demographic mapping across gardening communities to inform urban and periurban plant biosecurity engagement strategies Myrtle Rust The Silent Killer explained in a new short film Myrtle Rust Myrtle Rust is a plant disease caused by the introduced fungal pathogenAustropuccinia psidiiand it poses a serious and urgent threat to Australias native biodiversity. Myrtle Rust affects plant species in the family Myrtaceae paperbarks teatrees eucalypts and lillipillies which are key and often dominant species in most Australian ecosystems. To date it has proved capable of infecting 382 native species and this number is growing.