- Industry: Plants
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The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases.
The ability of bacteria to interact with each other through a variety of mechanisms; allows a population of bacteria to behave more like a multicellular organism.
Industry:Plants
A compound produced in microbes (e.g., mycotoxins, syringomycins) or plants (e.g., caffeine or nicotine) that is not necessary for normal growth and development.
Industry:Plants
Precipitation (fog, rain, snow) with a low pH, due to the presence of nitric and sulfuric acid formed by the reaction of air pollutants (N0x and S02) with water.
Industry:Plants
Gene required for elicitation of the hypersensitive (HR) response in resistant plants and causation of disease in susceptible plants; a type of avirulence gene.
Industry:Plants
Immature stage of certain animals (especially insects) that undergo complete metamorphosis; the wormlike or caterpillar stage of the life cycle of such insects.
Industry:Plants
A fruiting body containing bitunicate (double-walled) asci in locules (cavities); usually dark with multiple locules, but sometimes single (see pseudothecium. )
Industry:Plants
A method using the specificity of the antigen-antibody reaction for the detection and identification of antigenic substances and the organisms that carry them.
Industry:Plants
An abrupt heritable or genetic change in a gene or an individual as a result of an alternation in a gene or chromosome, or of an increase in chromosome number.
Industry:Plants
Substance produced in higher plants in response to a number of chemical, physical, and biological stimuli that inhibits the growth of certain micro-organisms.
Industry:Plants
A white, powdery, superficial ascomycetous fungus that is an obligate parasite and generally is found only on one or a few closely related species of plants.
Industry:Plants
