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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 process in which sexual reproduction occurs as a result of the fusion of sex cells from different individuals (see self-fertilization. )
Industry:Plants
Specialized tissues that form over a wound or cut in a plant; cork cambium may form and the cells produced will gradually seal the wound.
Industry:Plants
Spore, often thick-walled, that can remain alive in a dormant state for some time, later germinating and capable of initiating infection.
Industry:Plants
A type of asexual reproduction in which two cells, usually of similar size and shape, are formed by the growth and division of one cell.
Industry:Plants
An organism that synthesizes its nutritive substances from inorganic molecules; e.g. plants capable of photosynthesis (see heterotroph. )
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Death of phloem cells, often visible, caused by infection by systemic phloem pathogens such as phytoplasmas, spiroplasmas, and viruses .
Industry:Plants
Movement or growth of an organism in response to changing concentration of a chemical stimulus, often in relation to food or for mating.
Industry:Plants
Movement or growth of an organism in response to changing concentration of a chemical stimulus, often in relation to food or for mating.
Industry:Plants
Proteins, such as antimicrobial proteins and hydrolytic enzymes, that are synthesized in the early events of the plant defense response.
Industry:Plants
To attack as a pest (used especially of insects and nematodes); to contaminate, as with microorganisms; to be present in large numbers .
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