Plant pathology

Plant pathology

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

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specific 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 ...

urediniospore

Plants; Plant pathology

The asexual, dikaryotic, often rusty-colored spore of a rust fungus, produced in a structure called a uredinium; the "repeating stage" of a heteroecious rust fungus, i.e. capable of infecting the ...

ribonucleic acid (RNA)

Plants; Plant pathology

Several nucleic acids composed of repeating units of ribose (a sugar), a phosphate group, and a purine (adenine or guanine) or a pyrimidine (uracil or cytosine) base; transcribed from DNA and ...

bulb

Plants; Plant pathology

A short, flattened, usually globose or disc-shaped, underground, perennial, storage organ composed of concentric layers of overlapping fleshy scale leaves attached to a stem plate at the base; ...

extracellular polysaccharides (EPS)

Plants; Plant pathology

Sugar polymers that contribute to the slimy appearance of bacteria probably promote colonization of plant tissues and disease development in bacteria.

hyphopodium

Plants; Plant pathology

Stalked, thick-walled, lobed cells that stick to plant surfaces; sometimes used to describe the infection structures produced by ectotrophic hyphae of certain root-infecting fungi such as ...

Reproduction involving fusion of two haploid nuclei (karyogamy) to form a diploid nucleus followed by meiosis (reduction division) back to haploid nuclei at some point in the life cycle, resulting in ...