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Plant pathology
The scientific study of plant diseases, their treatment and prevention.
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Plant pathology
meiosis
Plants; Plant pathology
Process of nuclear division in which the number of chromosomes per nucleus is halved, i.e. converting the diploid state to the haploid state (see mitosis. )
suppressive soil
Plants; Plant pathology
Soil in which various diseases are naturally at lower levels than expected due to biological factors in the soil; an example of natural biological control.
viscin
Plants; Plant pathology
Sticky substance produced on the seed coat of parasitic flowering plants in the Viscaceae (mistletoes) that helps attach the seed to the host plant branch.
winterburn
Plants; Plant pathology
Foliar necrosis, often marginal, of plants that retain their leaves in winter due to water deficiency because they cannot take up water from frozen soils.
ascocarp
Plants; Plant pathology
Sexual fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus that produces asci and ascospores; e.g. apothecium, ascostroma, cleistothecium, perithecium, pseudothecium.
ascoma
Plants; Plant pathology
Sexual fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus that produces asci and ascospores; e.g. apothecium, ascostroma, cleistothecium, perithecium, pseudothecium.
species (SP)
Plants; Plant pathology
A genus name followed by sp. means that the particular species is undetermined; spp. after a genus name means that several species are being referred to.
