Plant pathology

Plant pathology

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

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Plant pathology

cultural practices

Plants; Plant pathology

The manner in which plants are grown, such as: application of nutrients, irrigation practices, type of cultivation; may be used for disease management.

graft transmission

Plants; Plant pathology

Transmission of a pathogen from one host plant to another through fusion of living tissue from the diseased host with living tissue of a healthy host.

economic threshold

Plants; Plant pathology

The pathogen density at or above which the value of crop losses (in the absence of management efforts) would exceed the cost of management practices.

arthropod

Plants; Plant pathology

Member of the phylum Arthropoda, which consists of animals with articulated bodies and limbs and which includes insects, arachnids, and crustaceans.

spore

Plants; Plant pathology

Reproductive structure of fungi and some other organisms, containing one or more cells; a bacterial cell modified to survive an adverse environment.

initial inoculum

Plants; Plant pathology

Inoculum, usually from an overwintering source, that initiates disease in the field, as opposed to inoculum that spreads disease during the season.

pseudothecium

Plants; Plant pathology

Perithecium-like fruiting body containing asci and ascospores dispersed rather than in an organized hymenium; an ascostroma with a single locule or cavity and containing bitunicate asci.