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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 cultural system most often used with annual crops, in which the new crop is seeded or planted directly in a field on which the preceding crop plants were cut down, had the tops harvested, or were destroyed by a nonselective herbicide (the old crop is not removed or incorporated into the soil as is common in preparing a plant bed. )
Industry:Plants
A term used to describe the loss of general (horizontal, minor gene, multigenic, polygenic) resistance in a cultivar after several generations of selection during which a major gene confers resistance to the dominant race or biotype of the pathogen; first observed in the potato cultivar Vertifolia with late blight resistance.
Industry:Plants
A type of virus transmission in which the virus is acquired and transmitted by the vector after relatively long feeding times and remains transmissible for a prolonged period while in association with its vector.
Industry:Plants
A type of virus transmission in which the virus is acquired and transmitted by the vector after relatively long feeding times and remains transmissible for a prolonged period while in association with its vector.
Industry:Plants
A plant disease characterized (in woody plants) by the death of cambium tissue and loss and/or malformation of bark, or (in non-woody plants) by the formation of sharply delineated, dry, necrotic, localized lesions on the stem; "canker" may also be used to refer to the lesion itself, particularly in woody plants.
Industry:Plants
Ability of a plant to endure an infectious or noninfectious disease, adverse conditions, or chemical injury without serious damage or yield loss; (of pesticides) the amount of chemical reside legally permitted on an agricultural product entering commercial channels and usually measured in parts per million (ppm. )
Industry:Plants
The structure that contains the genes of an organism; in eukaryotes, chromosomes are in the nucleus and can be visualized with an optical microscope as threads or rods during meiosis and mitosis; in bacteria, the chromosome is usually a single circle of DNA that cannot be visualized with an optical microscope.
Industry:Plants
Reduced disease symptoms on a portion of a plant distant from the area where the inducing agent is active, caused by the triggering of active plant defenses against a variety of pathogens; used to describe increased resistance in plants induced by certain rhizobacteria (see systemic acquired resistance- SAR. )
Industry:Plants
Crop planted around a field to protect the inner crop from diseases transmitted by aerial vectors; host crop of a parasitic plant, such as witchweed (Striga spp. ), that is planted to stimulate seed germination, and later sacrified by plowing under before the parasitic plant produces new seeds.
Industry:Plants
A fungicide that is absorbed into plant tissue and may offer some curative or after-infection activity; includes fungicides that are locally systemic, xylem-mobile (upward moving), and amphimobile (move in phloem upward as well as downward in the plant) (see contact or protectant fungicide. )
Industry:Plants
