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Plant pathology
The scientific study of plant diseases, their treatment and prevention.
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Plant pathology
apothecium
Plants; Plant pathology
Open, cuplike or saucerlike, ascus-bearing fungal fruiting body (ascocarp), often supported on a stalk.
infection cushion
Plants; Plant pathology
Organized mass of hyphae formed on the surface of a plant from which numerous infective hyphae develop.
crozier
Plants; Plant pathology
The hook of an ascogenous hypha before ascus development; the curved apical portion of a blighted stem.
monoxenic culture
Plants; Plant pathology
A culture containing one species of organism growing in the presence of one other species of organism.
rust
Plants; Plant pathology
A disease caused by a specialized group of basidiomycetes that often produces spores of a rusty color.
primary pollutant
Plants; Plant pathology
Air pollutant that is released directly into the atmosphere and is harmful to plants, e.g. SO2 or NOx.
pycnium
Plants; Plant pathology
Globose or flask-shaped haploid fruiting body of rust fungi bearing receptive hyphae and pycniospores.
