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The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases.
Portion of the stem (trunk) and associated root system into which a bud or scion is inserted in grafting; fleshy overwintering part of a herbaceous perennial plant with buds and eyes (see scion. )
Industry:Plants
A chemical substance produced in one part of an organism and transported in minute quantities to induce a growth response in another part, e.g. in plants, auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins.
Industry:Plants
A chemical substance produced in one part of an organism and transported in minute quantities to induce a growth response in another part, e.g. in plants, auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins.
Industry:Plants
Upward from the base to the apex of a shoot of a plant; in fungi, the production of spores in succession in the direction of the apex so that the apical spore is the youngest (see basipetal. )
Industry:Plants
The concept that even specialized cells contain all of the genetic information for an organism and, therefore, any cell should be able to regenerate into any tissue or into an entire plant.
Industry:Plants
A population of cells or organisms of identical genotype; population of recombinant DNA molecules all carrying the same inserted sequence;
Industry:Plants
Perithecium-like fruiting body containing asci and ascospores dispersed rather than in an organized hymenium; an ascostroma with a single locule or cavity and containing bitunicate asci.
Industry:Plants
Thick-walled or double-walled asexual resting spore formed from hyphal cells (terminal or intercalary) or by transformation of conidial cells that can function as an overwintering stage.
Industry:Plants
Parasitic flowering plant that lacks chlorophyll (nonphotosynthetic) and must rely totally on the contents of the xylem and the phloem of the host plant, e.g. broomrape (Orobanche spp. )
Industry:Plants
Disease symptom characterized by non-uniform coloration, with intermingled normal, light green and yellowish patches, usually caused by a virus; often used interchangeably with mottle.
Industry:Plants
