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The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases.
A plant type within a species, resulting from deliberate manipulation, which has recognizable characteristics (color, shape of flowers, fruits, seeds, height and form. )
Industry:Plants
A substance that, on decomposition, yields glucose and certain other compounds; some glucosides are defense compounds produced by plants, e.g. cyanogenic or phenolic glucosides.
Industry:Plants
Combination of biotic factors (e.g. insect pests, pathogens) and abiotic factors (e.g. drought, air pollution) that contributes to poor growth and death of populations of trees.
Industry:Plants
The shedding of leaves or other plant parts as the result of physical weakness in a specialized layer of cells (the abscission layer) that develops at the base of the structure.
Industry:Plants
Plant that reacts to a pathogen or an environmental factor with specific symptoms, used to detect or identify the pathogen or determine the effects of the environmental factor.
Industry:Plants
Procedure used for identification of bacteria in which crystal violet stain, Gram's iodine, ethyl alcohol and safranin stain are applied in succession to cells of the bacteria.
Industry:Plants
Structure in which male reproductive cells are produced; in rust fungi, globose or flask-shaped haploid fruiting body composed of receptive hyphae and spermatia (pycniospores. )
Industry:Plants
Structure in which male reproductive cells are produced; in rust fungi, globose or flask-shaped haploid fruiting body composed of receptive hyphae and spermatia (pycniospores. )
Industry:Plants
A fungus group, also called the Zygomycota, characterized by nonseptate hyphae, sexual zygospores, and sporangiospores produced in a sporangium; common post-harvest pathogens.
Industry:Plants
Pertaining to a disease in which the pathogen (or a single infection) spreads generally throughout the plant; pertaining to chemicals that spread internally through the plant.
Industry:Plants
