Plant pathology

Plant pathology

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

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type

Plants; Plant pathology

The example on which the description of a scientific name is based, and which fixes the application of the name (the type genus of a family, or the type species of a genus. )

fungus

Plants; Plant pathology

A eukaryotic organism that is usually filamentous (forming a mycelium) and heterotrophic, has cell walls composed of chitin, and reproduces by sexual and/or asexual spores.

mycoplasmalike organsim (MLO)

Plants; Plant pathology

Archaic term for phytoplasma; plant-parasitic pleomorphic mollicute (prokaryote with no cell wall) found in phloem tissue; cannot yet be grown on artificial nutrient media.

mycoplasmalike organism (MLO)

Plants; Plant pathology

Archaic term for phytoplasma; plant-parasitic pleomorphic mollicute (prokaryote with no cell wall) found in phloem tissue; cannot yet be grown on artificial nutrient media.

vacuole

Plants; Plant pathology

Generally spherical organelle within a plant cell bound by a membrane and containing dissolved materials such as metabolic precursors, storage materials, or waste products.

papilla

Plants; Plant pathology

Nipple-like projection; used to describe the tip of some sporangia and the localized wall thickenings on the inner surface of plant cell walls at sites penetrated by fungi.

plasmid

Plants; Plant pathology

A circular, self-replicating hereditary element that is not part of a chromosome; plasmids are used in recombinant DNA experiments as acceptors and vectors of foreign DNA.