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The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases.
Class of fungal-like organisms typically with nonseptate mycelium, asexual sporangia and zoospores, and sexual oospores.
Industry:Plants
Jellylike material derived from algae and used to solidify liquid culture media; term also applied to the medium itself.
Industry:Plants
Stiff, slender, hollow feeding organ of plant-parasitic nematodes or sap-sucking insects, such as aphids or leafhoppers.
Industry:Plants
A plant disease in which the fungus appears as a downy growth on the host surface; caused by a member of the oomycetes.
Industry:Plants
Large populations of bacteria that exude from the cut surface of infected plant tissue when observed with a microscope.
Industry:Plants
Process in which an organism enters, invades, or penetrates and establishes a parasitic relationship with a host plant.
Industry:Plants
Small knot or irregular, rounded lump; on leguminous plants, structures on roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Industry:Plants
Smut sorus filled, with teliospores, that replaces a cereal or grass kernel but is covered by plant tissue at maturity.
Industry:Plants
Testing of a plant for infection, often by mechanical transmission or by grafting tissue from it to an indicator plant.
Industry:Plants
The system of triplet codons composed of nucleotides of DNA or RNA that determine the amino acid sequence of a protein.
Industry:Plants
