- 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.
Transmission of a pathogen from one host plant to another through fusion of living tissue from the diseased host with living tissue of a healthy host.
Industry:Plants
The pathogen density at or above which the value of crop losses (in the absence of management efforts) would exceed the cost of management practices.
Industry:Plants
Member of the phylum Arthropoda, which consists of animals with articulated bodies and limbs and which includes insects, arachnids, and crustaceans.
Industry:Plants
Reproductive structure of fungi and some other organisms, containing one or more cells; a bacterial cell modified to survive an adverse environment.
Industry:Plants
Inoculum, usually from an overwintering source, that initiates disease in the field, as opposed to inoculum that spreads disease during the season.
Industry:Plants
Inoculum, usually from an overwintering source, that initiates disease in the field, as opposed to inoculum that spreads disease during the season.
Industry:Plants
Noncellular outer layer of an insect or a nematode; water-repellent, waxy layer of epidermal cells of plant parts, such as leaves, stems and fruit.
Industry:Plants
Reduction in height of a vertical axis resulting from a progressive reduction in the length of successive internodes or a decrease in their number.
Industry:Plants
Term for the prescribed minimum number of days required by U. S. government regulations between a pesticide application and the harvest of the crop.
Industry:Plants
The female reproductive structure of organisms; in plants, enlarged basal portion of a pistil, containing the ovules and developing into the fruit.
Industry:Plants
