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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 period of spontaneous dormancy, independent of environmental conditions, interrupting developmental activity in an embryo, larva or pupa.
Industry:Plants
A plant hormone influencing various aspects of vegetative growth, fruit ripening, abscission of plant parts, and the senescence of flowers.
Industry:Plants
Disease symptom comprising light and dark areas in an irregular pattern, usually caused by a virus; often used interchangeably with mosaic.
Industry:Plants
Underdevelopment of a plant or plant organs, which may be caused by disease, inadequate nutrition, or unfavorable environmental conditions.
Industry:Plants
A culture or subpopulation of a microorganism separated from its parent population and maintained in some sort of controlled circumstance;
Industry:Plants
Dense aggregation of proteinaceous matter and nucleic acid in cells, surrounded by a membrane; contains chromosomes and controls heredity.
Industry:Plants
Disease symptom, usually caused by a virus, involving addition or loss of flower color to create a variegated pattern. (see flower break. )
Industry:Plants
Symbiotic association between a nonpathogenic or weakly pathogenic fungus and the roots of plants (see ectomycorrhiza and endomycorrhiza. )
Industry:Plants
Targetlike development of tree canker, characterized by successive, perennial rings of callus; any symptom appearing in concentric rings .
Industry:Plants
The various compounds that leak from growing and expanding sections of roots as well as from broken cells at exit points of lateral roots.
Industry:Plants
