Plant pathology

Plant pathology

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

Industry: Plants

Contributors in Plant pathology

Plant pathology

To kill pathogens that have not yet initiated disease, or other contaminating microoganisms, that occur in or on inanimate objects as such soil or tools, or that occur on the surface of plant parts ...

basidium

Plants; Plant pathology

Specialized cell or organ, often club-shaped, in which karyogamy and meiosis occur, followed by production of externally-borne basidiospores (generally four) that are haploid. There are several ...

Mycelia sterilia

Plants; Plant pathology

A group in the Fungi Imperfecti that does not produce spores, but may produce chlamydospores or sclerotia, e.g. Rhizoctonia and Sclerotium; subsequent research has defined sexual reproduction for ...

nitrogen cycle

Plants; Plant pathology

The cycling of the element nitrogen from gaseous forms to various inorganic forms, such as ammonium, nitrates and nitrites, and organic forms, such as nucleic acids and proteins and back to elemental ...

sessile

Plants; Plant pathology

Used in reference to a leaf, leaflet, flower, floret, fruit, ascocarp, basidiocarp, etc. , without a stalk, petiole, pedicel, stipe or stem; (of nematodes) permanently attached; not capable of moving ...

cross-protection

Plants; Plant pathology

The process whereby a normally susceptible host is infected with a less virulent pathogen (usually a virus) and thereby becomes resistant to infection by a second, usually related, more virulent ...

transformation

Plants; Plant pathology

The transfer of genetic materials from one organism to another by humans (genetic engineering); a means of genetic variation in bacteria by absorption and incorporation of DNA from another bacterial ...