Plants

Plants

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.

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fungistasis

Plants; Plant pathology

Inhibition of fungal growth, sporulation, or spore germination but not death; used to describe the nonspecific phenomenon in natural soils where spore germination is inhibited and ...

chytridiomycetes

Plants; Plant pathology

A fungus group, also called the Chytridiomycota, characterized by the production of motile zoospores and resting sporangia; the plant-pathogenic species are all biotrophs that are ...

plasmodiophoromycetes

Plants; Plant pathology

A fungus-like group of organisms, sometimes called the Plasmodiophoromycota or the endoparasitic slime molds, characterized by the production of zoospores and plasmodia that are ...

teliospore

Plants; Plant pathology

Thick-walled resting or overwintering spore produced by the rust fungi (Uredinales) and smut fungi (Ustilaginales) in which karyogamy occurs; it germinates to form a promycelium ...

antagonism

Plants; Plant pathology

A general term for interference between organisms that may include antibiosis or competition for nutrients or space; action of two or more pesticides that reduces the ...

arbuscular mycorrhiza

Plants; Plant pathology

Symbiotic association between a nonpathogenic or weakly pathogenic fungus and the roots of plants in which fungal hyphae invade cortical cells of the root (see ectomycorrhiza. )

endomycorrhiza

Plants; Plant pathology

Symbiotic association between a nonpathogenic or weakly pathogenic fungus and the roots of plants in which fungal hyphae invade cortical cells of the root (see ectomycorrhiza. )