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Plant pathology
The scientific study of plant diseases, their treatment and prevention.
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Rhizobium
Plants; Plant pathology
Genus of bacteria that lives symbiotically with roots of leguminous plants; during the symbiosis, atmospheric nitrogen gas is converted into a form useable by the plant.
complete resistance
Plants; Plant pathology
A resistant reaction in which some aspect of disease development, usually symptom expression or pathogen reproduction, is completely stopped (see partial resistance. )
giant cell
Plants; Plant pathology
Enlarged, multinucleate cell formed in roots by repeated nuclear division without cell division induced by secretions of certain sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes .
dormancy
Plants; Plant pathology
A condition of suspended growth and reduced metabolism of an organism, generally induced by internal factors or environmental conditions as a mechanism of survival.
multiline
Plants; Plant pathology
Mixture of cultivars that differ only in single, major genes for resistance to a pathogen, giving the opportunity to modify the mixture from year to year as needed.
infective
Plants; Plant pathology
Referring to an organism able to attack a host and cause infection; referring to a vector carrying or containing a pathogen and able to transfer it to a host plant.
green manure
Plants; Plant pathology
A crop plowed under while still green and growing to improve the soil; sometimes used to enhance populations of antagonistic microorganisms for biological control.
