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Plant pathology

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

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Plant pathology

bacterial streaming

Plants; Plant pathology

Large populations of bacteria that exude from the cut surface of infected plant tissue when observed with a microscope.

infect

Plants; Plant pathology

Process in which an organism enters, invades, or penetrates and establishes a parasitic relationship with a host plant.

nodule

Plants; Plant pathology

Small knot or irregular, rounded lump; on leguminous plants, structures on roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

bunt ball

Plants; Plant pathology

Smut sorus filled, with teliospores, that replaces a cereal or grass kernel but is covered by plant tissue at maturity.

indexing

Plants; Plant pathology

Testing of a plant for infection, often by mechanical transmission or by grafting tissue from it to an indicator plant.

genetic code

Plants; Plant pathology

The system of triplet codons composed of nucleotides of DNA or RNA that determine the amino acid sequence of a protein.

fungistat

Plants; Plant pathology

A chemical or physical agent that inhibits fungal growth, sporulation, or spore geminiation, but does not cause death.

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