Plant pathology

Plant pathology

The scientific study of plant diseases, their treatment and prevention.

Industry: Plants

Contributors in Plant pathology

Plant pathology

Injuries to plant tissues that often breach barriers (cuticle, bark, cell walls) that might otherwise exclude pathogens; some pathogens (e.g. viruses) can enter plants only through a wound; wounds ...

phenological synchrony

Plants; Plant pathology

The coordinated development of parasites and their hosts based on degree-days and other environmental factors so that parasites can successfully infect their hosts, such as the production and release ...

vector

Plants; Plant pathology

# A living organism (e.g., insect, mite, bird, higher animal, nematode, parasitic plant, human) able to carry and transmit a pathogen and disseminate disease. # In genetic engineering, a vector or ...

no-till

Plants; Plant pathology

A cultural system most often used with annual crops, in which the new crop is seeded or planted directly in a field on which the preceding crop plants were cut down, had the tops harvested, or were ...

Vertifolia effect

Plants; Plant pathology

A term used to describe the loss of general (horizontal, minor gene, multigenic, polygenic) resistance in a cultivar after several generations of selection during which a major gene confers ...

circulative transmission

Plants; Plant pathology

A type of virus transmission in which the virus is acquired and transmitted by the vector after relatively long feeding times and remains transmissible for a prolonged period while in association ...

persistent transmission

Plants; Plant pathology

A type of virus transmission in which the virus is acquired and transmitted by the vector after relatively long feeding times and remains transmissible for a prolonged period while in association ...