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Plant pathology

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

Contributors in Plant pathology

Plant pathology

canker

Plants; Plant pathology

A plant disease characterized (in woody plants) by the death of cambium tissue and loss and/or malformation of bark, or (in non-woody plants) by the formation of sharply delineated, dry, necrotic, ...

tolerance

Plants; Plant pathology

Ability of a plant to endure an infectious or noninfectious disease, adverse conditions, or chemical injury without serious damage or yield loss; (of pesticides) the amount of chemical reside legally ...

chromosome

Plants; Plant pathology

The structure that contains the genes of an organism; in eukaryotes, chromosomes are in the nucleus and can be visualized with an optical microscope as threads or rods during meiosis and mitosis; in ...

induced systemic resistance (ISR)

Plants; Plant pathology

Reduced disease symptoms on a portion of a plant distant from the area where the inducing agent is active, caused by the triggering of active plant defenses against a variety of pathogens; used to ...

trap crop

Plants; Plant pathology

Crop planted around a field to protect the inner crop from diseases transmitted by aerial vectors; host crop of a parasitic plant, such as witchweed (Striga spp. ), that is planted to stimulate seed ...

systemic fungicide

Plants; Plant pathology

A fungicide that is absorbed into plant tissue and may offer some curative or after-infection activity; includes fungicides that are locally systemic, xylem-mobile (upward moving), and amphimobile ...

systemic acquired resistance (SAR)

Plants; Plant pathology

Reduced disease symptoms on a portion of a plant distant from the area where a hypersensitive response occurred or other stimulus was applied; a rapid and coordinated defense response against a ...

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