Plant pathology

Plant pathology

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

Industry: Plants

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Plant pathology

Small fragment of nucleic acid with a free 3'-hydroxyl group necessary for initiation of DNA, and, sometimes, RNA synthesis; often specific fragments chosen for use in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ...

disease cycle

Plants; Plant pathology

Succession of all of events and interactions among the host, parasite and environment that occur in a disease, from initial infection of the plant by a causal agent, through pathogenesis, to ...

stabilizing selection

Plants; Plant pathology

The theorized competitive disadvantage of unnecessary virulence genes; races with excess genes would have decreased fitness relative to races with fewer virulence genes, so a "super-race" would be ...

quantitative resistance

Plants; Plant pathology

Resistance reactions that have no distinct classes but vary continuously from resistant to susceptible, the result of few to many genes the individual effects of which may be small and difficult to ...

ergot

Plants; Plant pathology

# A disease of certain grasses and cereals, especially rye, caused by Claviceps spp; # A sclerotium, or resting structure, produced by Claviceps species and other closely related fungi in infected ...

smut

Plants; Plant pathology

A disease caused by a smut fungus (Ustilaginales) in the Basidiomycota or the fungus itself; it is characterized by masses of dark brown or black, dusty to greasy masses of teliospores that generally ...

vertical resistance

Plants; Plant pathology

Resistance which is effective against some biotypes or races of the pathogen, but not others, usually inherited monogenically and expressed qualitatively. (see general resistance, horizontal ...