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y y
Symptom y
Abnormal plant growth or function due to a disease. A symptom is a reaction of the PLANT.
Sign
Pathogen parts or products seen on a host plant. A sign is the PATHOGEN itself.
Local symptom y
Systemic symptom y
Primary symptom y
Secondary symptom y
Indirect or subsequent changes in tissues away from the site of initial infection
Abortion y
Abscission y
Premature drop of leaves, flowers or fruit resulting from the premature formation of the abscission meristem.
Anthocyanescence y
A reddish or purplish coloration of leaves resulting from abnormal development of anthocyanin pigments.
Bleeding y Blight y
Blister y
Bronzing y
Brooming y
The clustering of organs such as branches about some common point on the plant. Generally arises from development of adventitious buds.
See Scorch.
Tissue overgrowth produced in response to injury or other irritation and which tends to cover a wound, canker, etc.
Canker y
A sunken necrotic lesion beginning in the bark of branches, trunk, or roots and usually becoming deeper and wider by normal or accelerated secondary growth (callusing) of cambium, phellogen, and traumatic meristem. This deepening continues as the pathogen encroaches transversely into the cambium and wood as well as tangentially in the cambium region. A typically well-developed canker is a symptom complex exhibiting necrotic, atrophic and hypertrophic symptoms.
Cast y
See Abscission.
Chlorosis y
Curl y
Abnormal bending or curling of leaves or shoots due to localized overgrowth on one side or in certain tissues.
Damping-off y
A symptom complex characterized by rapid dying, browning, and rotting of germinating seedlings. Shoots may be killed before before emergence, stems may be attacked in the root collar region causing shoots to fall over, roots may be destroyed, or cotyledons may be attacked.
Decay y
See Rot.
Defoliation y Dieback y
The progressive drying, shrivelling, and browning of twigs or branches from the tips inward toward the trunk.
Drop y
Dwarfing y
Epinasty y
A leaf curl in which the leaves turn downward, due to a more rapid growth of cells on the upper side than on the lower side of the leaf stalk.
Etiolation y
A symptom complex in which the major symptoms are dwarfing of foliage and inflorescence, spindly stem growth, and chlorosis.
Exudate y
See Ooze.
Fasciation y
Flattening or cohering of organs such as stems, flowers, and roots. The cause is unknown, but in some cases the condition can be propagated.
Flagging
y Gall y
Loss of rigidity and drooping of leaves and young shoots preceding whole plant wilting.
A pronounced tumefaction, often more or less spherical and usually composed of undifferentiated cells.
Girdling y
Tangential enlargement of a canker or lateral coalescence of cankers causing a branch or stem to be encircled and resulting in the complete stoppage of conduction.
Greening y
See Virescence.
Gummosis y
The formation of gums by diseased cells and tissues and the extrusion of gum from wounds and other lesions.
Hairy root y
Heterotropy y
Hydrosis y
A water soaked, translucent appearance of leaves, fruits and green stems due to the extrusion of water from the cells into the intercellular spaces.
Hyperplasia y
Hypertrophy y
An abnormal increase in the size of a plant or plant part generally due to an abnormal increase in the size of the cells.
Hypoplasia y
Hypotrophy
y Knot y
A type of tumefaction.
Leaf retention y
The abnormally long retention of leaves usually resulting from a failure to develop the abscission meristem.
Mummy y
Necrosis y Oozes y
Viscid masses composed of living or dead pathogen structures and partially disintegrated host tissues.
Pitting y
Superficial depressions in the surface of succulent organs resulting from the death and shrinkage of subepidermal cells.
Prolepsis y
Proliferation
Continued or extended development of a plant part beyond the point at which growth normally ceases.
Reddening y
The loss of green color from chlorophyllous tissue due to the destruction of the chlorophyll and/or the degeneration of chloroplasts which unmasks red pigments. Reddening may also result from the production of decomposition products accompanying death and deterioration.
Resinosis y
Restoration y
Rosetting y
A shortening of internodes through failure to elongate, which results in a crowding of the foliage.
Roll y Rot y
See Curl.
Russeting y Scab y
A limited, more or less circular, raised, and sometimes roughened lesion on fruits, tubers, leaves, and stems resulting from an overgrowth of epidermal, cortical, and peridermal tissues. This overgrowth is usually accompanied by rupturing and suberization (corking of cell walls).
Scaling y Scorch
The formation of scales or corky material where scales normally do not occur.
A sudden drying and browning of large, indefinite areas on leaves and fruits. Also damage to bark resulting in drying and death.
Shelling y
Shot-hole y
Silvering y
A silvery sheen or gray luster of leaf or primary bark surfaces due to the development of unnatural air spaces beneath the epidermis
Death of the entire crown of a tree causing a pattern that resembles staghead.
Circular, areolate, or irregular discolored and dead areas on leaves, fruits, or green stems.
Staghead y Streak y
Dieback or flagging of entire large branches in the crown, or of the entire top of a tree.
Elongated, narrow, lesions which are first water soaked then brown, in foliage or green stems. In wood there is discoloration in axial streaks within the outer, conducting layer of sapwood resulting from deterioration of the wood structure or extraneous components.
Stripe y
Stunting y
Suppression y Tumor
Local swelling on any part of the plant, usually woody roots, stem, or branches, usually resulting from stimulation of the plant meristem by the pathogen.
Virescence y
The process in which a normally white or colored tissue develops chlorophyll and becomes green.
Wart y
See Hydrosis.
A flaccid appearance of leaves and shoots resulting from a temporary or permanent loss of turgor due to excess transpiration by the leaves and shoots.
Witches' broom y
A type of overgrowth in which there is an abnormal bushlike development of many weak shoots or roots.
Yellowing y
The loss of green color from chlorophyllous tissues, due to the destruction of the chlorophyll and/or degeneration of the chloroplasts, which unmasks yellow pigments.
Signs
Symptom y
Abnormal plant growth or function due to a disease. A symptom is a reaction of the PLANT.
Sign y
Pathogen parts or products seen on a host plant. A sign is the PATHOGEN itself.
Bacterial streaming
Observation of bacteria and bacterial products streaming out of plant tissue and into water.
Ooze y
Viscid masses composed of living or dead pathogen structures and partially disintegrated host tissues.
Egg y
Mycelium y
A mass of hyphae.
Rhizomorph y
Sporocarp y
Pustule y
Small blister like elevation of epidermis created as spores form underneath and push outward.
Oomycetes
Hypha y
Hyphae without crosswalls, found in Oomycetes, some other protists and some fungi.
Sexual spore produced by Oomycetes characterized by a thick cell wall, this is the resting or survival stage.
Oogonium y
Antheridium y
Sporangium y
Sporangiophore y
Zoospore y
A motile asexual spore characterized by two flagella. Found in Oomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes. Chytrids produce zoospores with a single flagellum.
Germ tube y
Pythium - Important cause of damping off and root rots. Phytophthora - Species in this genera cause late blight of potato, sudden oak death and other root rots, fruit rots, cankers and diebacks. Aphanomyces - Important casue of damping off and root rots. Downy mildew - A group of several genera of Oomycetes that cause foliar diseases on many different plant species, characterized by production of sporangiophores on the the lower surface of leaves.
Germ tube y
Apressorium y
The swollen tip of a hypha or germ tube that facilitates attachment and penetration of the host by a fungus.
Haustorium y
A specialized fungal hyphae that enters and absorbs nutrients from a host cell.
Ascomycetes y
Fungi in the Phylum Ascomycota that produce sexual spores in sac-like structures called asci.
Deuteromycetes y
A group of fungi with no known sexual stage. Often, when a sexual stage is discovered, these fungi turn out to be Ascomycetes.
Anamorph y
Teleomorph y Conidia
Conidiophore y
Ascocarp y Asci y
Ascospores y
Apothecia y
Perithecia y
Cleistothecia y
Sporodochium y
An asexual fruiting structure consisting of a cluster of conidiophores woven together on a mass of hyphae.
Pycnidium y
Acervulus y
Synnema y
An asexual fruiting body consisting of fused conidiopores to form a stalk with conidia on the end.
Chlamydospores y
Sclerotia y
Basidiomycetes
Basidiomycetes y
Basidiocarp y
Basidium y
Basidiospores y
Dikaryotic hyphae y
Hypahe with two haploid nuclei. This is the normal vegetative state for Basidiomycetes.
Clamp connections y
Specialized hyphal structure that maintains the dikaryotic condition of Basidiomycete hyphae.
Telia y
Teliospores y Aecia y
Overwintering spores of rusts and smuts that produce basidia and basidiospores.
Aeciospores y
Dikaryotic spore of a rust fungus produced in an aecium; in heteroecious rusts, a spore stage that infects the alternate host.
Spermatia y
Spermagonia y
Rust fruiting bodies that contain receptive hyphae and produce spermatia.
The part of a rust fungus spermogonium that receives the nucleus of a spermatium.
Uredospores y
Asexual, dikaryotic, often rusty-colored spore of a rust fungus, produced in a structure called a uredinium; the "repeating stage" of a heteroecious rust fungus, i.e. capable of infecting the host plant on which it is produced.
Macrocyclic y
Microcyclic
y
Heteroecious
y
Rusts that require two different hosts to complete their life cycle.
Autoecious
y
Slime molds - Fungal-like protists that can cause disease by growing on the surface of plants
Plasmodiophoromycetes y
Fungal-like protist that cause a few important plant diseases. They produce resting spores and zoospores.
Zoospore y
A motile asexual spore characterized by two flagella. Found in Oomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes. Chytrids produce zoospores with a single flagellum.
Resting spore y
Chytridiomycota
Chytrids - True fungi that lack true mycelium. They produce resting spores and zoospores with a single flagellum.
Zygomycetes y
Group of fungi with coenocytic hyphae that produce thick walled resting spores called zygospores and sporangiospores.
Zygosporangia y
Sporangiospores y
Nematodes
Nematodes y
Nematoda - Phylum of worm-like animals. Soil dwelling and plant parastic nematodes are microscopic.
Stylet y
Ectoparasite y
Endoparasite y
Sedentary
Describes a life style of plant parasitic nematodes that stay in one place and set up a feeding site.
Migratory y
Describes a life style of plant parasitic nematodes that move through the host as they feed.
Egg y
Giant cells y
Syncytia y
Viruses
Virus y
Viroids y
Nucleoprotein y
Submicroscopic y
Multipartite/Multiparticulate y
Coat Protein y
Protein, encoded by virus nucleic acid, which covers the viral nucleic acid
Inclusion body y
Aggregation of virus partilces in a host cell that is visible with a compound microscope
Plasmodesmata y
A connection across a plant cell wall that connects the cytoplasm of two neighboring cells
Movement Protein y
Protien, encoded by virus nucleic acid, that facilitates the movement of the virus through the plant and/or by the vector
Vector transmission y
Mechanical transmission y
Non-persistant transmission y
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where the vector quickly picks up virus particles on its mouthparts and is infective for a short period of time (hours).
Semi-pertsistant transmission
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where virus particles enter the vectors foregut. In this case the vector also picks up the virus quicly but is infective for somewhat longer (days) than with non-persistant transmission.
Circulative transmission y
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where virus particles must circulate through the vectors hemolymph and enter the salivary glands to be tramsitted. In this case the vector aquisition and retention time is longer than with non or semi-persistant transmission.
Propagative transmission y
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where virus particles are repliacted in the the vector. In this case the vector retention time is longer than with circulative transmission and, in some cases, the virus can be transovarially transmitted.
Transovarial transmission y
Refers to viral transmission from an insect vector to its offspring, meaning offpring of an infected vector are also infective.
Aquisition period y
Refers to the period of time need for a virus vector to aquire a virus while feeding on an infected plant host.
Inoculation period y
Refers to the period of time need for a virus vector to transmit a virus while feeding on an uninfected plant host.
Latent period y
Refers to the period of time before a vector is infective after picking up the virus from an infected host.
Hemolymph y
Viruses to know
Tobacco mosiac virus (TMV) - Highly stable, rod-shaped virus that is an important pathogen of tobacco and other solanaceous crops. It was the first virus to be discovered. Cucumber mosiac virus (CMV) - Multipartite, isometric virus that is an important pathogen of many plants, most importantly cucumbers, melons, peppers, beans, bananas and brassicas.
Potato virus Y (PVY) - Flexuous rod-shaped virus that is an important pathogen of potato and other solanaceous crops. Papaya ringspot virus (PRV) - Flexuous rod-shaped virus that is an important pathogen of papaya. It almost destroyed papaya production in Hawaii until a genetically engineered resistance was developed.
Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) - Spherical virus with a membrane enclosing the nucleoprotien that is an important pathogen with a wide host range.
Bacteria
Bacteria y
Extracellular polysacharide y
Substance produced and excreted by bacteria for protection and/or adherance. It is what gives bacterial colonies a "slimy" appearance when grown in culture.
Flagellum y Pili y
Hair-like appendage of found on the surface of a baterium. Used for conjugation with another bacterium.
Plasmid y
Gram positive y
Refers to a group of bacteria with one membrane in association with their cell wall.
Refers to a group of bacteria with two membranes in association with their cell wall.
Quorum sensing
Dependence of bacterial behavior and pathogenicity on thier cells reaching a certain density by sensing the concentration of certain signal molecules.
Phage y
Transposons/Insertion elements y
Natural transformation/competence y
Ti-plasmid y
Tumor inducing plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens that causes gall formation and opine production by infected plants.
Opines y
Protein sectretion system used by some bacteria to inject bacterial proteins into a host cell.
Stomates y
Streptomyces spp. - Large group of common, antibiotic producing, filamentous bacteria. Streptomyces scabies causes common potato scab.
Parasitic plants
Plant parasitic plants y
Vascular, flowering plants that get nutrients directly from the host plant. These plants have a close relatioship with the host plant. They have specialized structures (haustoria) to enter the host's vasuclar tissues and retrieve nutrients.
Haustoria y
Specialized structure, a modified root, of a parasitic plant that enters the host host plant and obtains nutrients. (The same term is used for a specialized fungal hyphae that enters and absorbs nutrients from a host cell.)
Hemiparasites y
Parasitic plants that have chlorphyl and can make some of their own sugar but still rely on thier host for water and other nutrients.
Holoparasites y
Parasitic plants that do not have chlorphyl and rely on thier host for all nutrients.
Climbing vines y
A group of plants that have roots and grow in the soil, but still damage other plants by growing over them and restricting photosynthesis and/or vascular systems.
Epidemiology
Epidemic
Epidemiology y
Disease incidence y
Disease severity y
Polycyclic disease y
A disease with several cycles each year (or growing season) of inoculum production and infection.
Monocycic disease y
A disease where only one disease cycle is completed each year or growing season.
Primary inoculum y
Inoculum that produces the first infection of plants in a year or growing season.
Secondary inoculum y
Inoculum produced by previous infections that infect in the same year or growing season.
Inoculum density y
Disease-gradient curve y
Diagnosis
Selective medium
Medium used to isolate a target organism, and no other organisms. These media are designed to enhance growth of the target organism while inhibiting growth of non-target organisms.
Differential medium y
Medium that differentiates between the target organism and all others that may grow on that particular medium. Differentiation is often based on color.
Indicator plants y
Differential hosts y
Host range can be tested and compared to known pathogens for identification
Antibodies y
Antigens y ELISA y
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay - a test used to detect antigens. Antibodies can be created to detect pathogen proteins.
PCR y
Polymerase chain reaction - technique to amplify sequences of DNA. Can be used to detect specific sequences of pathogen DNA.
DNA fingerprinting y
Technique for pathogen identification where restirction enzymnes are used to cut genomic DNA, producing a pattern specific to a pathogen.
Prevent disease by selecting a time of the year or a site where there is no inoculum or where the environment is not favorable for infection.
Exclusion
Eradication y
Protection y
Resistance y
Therapy y
The activity of any organims that suppresses the activity of a pest organism. An antagonist is not autmatically a biological control agent, but antagonists are used to create biological controls.
Crop rotation y
Planting of different crops in the same area in sequential years (or seasons) to balance fertility and reduce the build up of crop pests.
The attempt to prevent pests from causing economic damage by using a variety of management methods that are cost effective and cause the least damage to the environment.
Host resistance
Interaction phenotype y
The phenotypic reaction of a plant to an interaction with a potential pathogen at a given point in time and environment.
Susceptible
Phenotypic expression related to extensive symptom development and/or pathogen reproduction and accomplished by uninhibited invasion of host by pathogen.
Resistant y
Phenotypic expression related to complete or partial suppression of symptom severity and/or pathogen reproduction and accomplished by arrested or slowed invasion of host by pathogen.
Partial resistance y
Expression of symptoms, but less than full susceptibility or greater than complete resistance.
Non-host reaction y
No interaction of pathogen and host; the pathogen is unable to infect the plant because the plant is not a host.
Hypersensitive response y
Plant responds to pathogen infection by quickly killing the infected cells, blocking the advance of the pathogen.
Pathogenicity/Virulence y
Refers to the ability of a microbe to cause disease (invade, infect, cause symptoms, reproduce).
Avirulence y Race y
A genetically and often geographically distinct mating group within a species; also a group of pathogens that infect a given set of plant varieties.
Aggressiveness y
Resistance attributed to the function of a single gene. Often confering complete resistance or hypersensitive response.
Polygenic resistance
Resistance attributed to the function of multiple genes. Often confering partial resistance.
Resistance that is effective against only one race of a pathogen and not other races of the same pathogen.
Rate-reducing resistance y
Partial resistance where that pathogen is able to infect the plant but reproduction is reduced or eliminated thereby reducing the spread of the pathogen.
R gene y
Avr gene y
Avirulence gene, a pathogen gene whose product is recognized by a plant and leads to a resistant reaction in the plant.
Avr protein/effector y
A pathogen protein that is recognized and leads to a resistant reaction in resistant plants but that is often a virulence factor in susceptible plants.
Whole plant resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen.
Transgenic plants y
Plants that have been genetically manipulated to express a gene from a different species.
Chemical control
Preventative y
Curative y
Refers to a chemical control method aimed at inhibiting the development of an established infection.
Protectant
Refers to a chemical meant to reside on the plant surface as a preventative control measure.
Systemic y
Refers to a chemical meant to be taken up by and distributed throughout the plant as a preventative or curative control measure.
ED 50 y
Effective dose, the amount needed to have the desired effect in 50% of the population.
Active ingredient y
Mode of action y
The molecluar mechanism of a pesticide; how the chemical interacts with the pathogen. Pesticides are grouped by mode of action. Some groups of pesticides are more likely to lead to the development of resistance than others.
Fumigant y
A toxic gas or volitile substance that is used to disinfest soil of various pests.
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Symptoms
Symptom y
Abnormal plant growth or function due to a disease. A symptom is a reaction of the PLANT.
Sign y
Pathogen parts or products seen on a host plant. A sign is the PATHOGEN itself.
Local symptom y
Systemic symptom y
Primary symptom y
Secondary symptom y
Indirect or subsequent changes in tissues away from the site of initial infection
Abortion y
Abscission
Premature drop of leaves, flowers or fruit resulting from the premature formation of the abscission meristem.
Anthocyanescence y
A reddish or purplish coloration of leaves resulting from abnormal development of anthocyanin pigments.
Bronzing y
Brooming y
The clustering of organs such as branches about some common point on the plant. Generally arises from development of adventitious buds.
See Scorch.
Tissue overgrowth produced in response to injury or other irritation and which tends to cover a wound, canker, etc.
Canker y
A sunken necrotic lesion beginning in the bark of branches, trunk, or roots and usually becoming deeper and wider by normal or accelerated secondary growth (callusing) of cambium, phellogen, and traumatic meristem. This deepening continues as the pathogen encroaches transversely into the cambium and wood as well as tangentially in the cambium region. A typically well-developed canker is a symptom complex exhibiting necrotic, atrophic and hypertrophic symptoms.
Cast y
See Abscission.
Chlorosis y
Curl y
Abnormal bending or curling of leaves or shoots due to localized overgrowth on one side or in certain tissues.
Damping-off y
A symptom complex characterized by rapid dying, browning, and rotting of germinating seedlings. Shoots may be killed before before emergence, stems may be attacked in the root collar region causing shoots to fall over, roots may be destroyed, or cotyledons may be attacked.
Decay y
See Rot.
Defoliation y Dieback y
The progressive drying, shrivelling, and browning of twigs or branches from the tips inward toward the trunk.
Drop
Dwarfing y
Epinasty y
A leaf curl in which the leaves turn downward, due to a more rapid growth of cells on the upper side than on the lower side of the leaf stalk.
Etiolation y
A symptom complex in which the major symptoms are dwarfing of foliage and inflorescence, spindly stem growth, and chlorosis.
Exudate y
See Ooze.
Fasciation y
Flattening or cohering of organs such as stems, flowers, and roots. The cause is unknown, but in some cases the condition can be propagated.
Flagging y Gall y
Loss of rigidity and drooping of leaves and young shoots preceding whole plant wilting.
A pronounced tumefaction, often more or less spherical and usually composed of undifferentiated cells.
Girdling y
Tangential enlargement of a canker or lateral coalescence of cankers causing a branch or stem to be encircled and resulting in the complete stoppage of conduction.
Greening y
See Virescence.
Gummosis y
The formation of gums by diseased cells and tissues and the extrusion of gum from wounds and other lesions.
Hairy root y
Heterotropy y
Hydrosis y
A water soaked, translucent appearance of leaves, fruits and green stems due to the extrusion of water from the cells into the intercellular spaces.
Hyperplasia y
Hypertrophy y
An abnormal increase in the size of a plant or plant part generally due to an abnormal increase in the size of the cells.
Hypoplasia y
Hypotrophy y Knot y
A type of tumefaction.
Leaf retention y
The abnormally long retention of leaves usually resulting from a failure to develop the abscission meristem.
Mummy y
Necrosis y Oozes y
Viscid masses composed of living or dead pathogen structures and partially disintegrated host tissues.
Pitting y
Superficial depressions in the surface of succulent organs resulting from the death and shrinkage of subepidermal cells.
Prolepsis y
Proliferation y
Continued or extended development of a plant part beyond the point at which growth normally ceases.
Reddening y
The loss of green color from chlorophyllous tissue due to the destruction of the chlorophyll and/or the degeneration of chloroplasts which unmasks red pigments. Reddening may also result from the production of decomposition products accompanying death and deterioration.
Resinosis y
Restoration y
Rosetting y
A shortening of internodes through failure to elongate, which results in a crowding of the foliage.
Roll y Rot y
See Curl.
Russeting y Scab y
A limited, more or less circular, raised, and sometimes roughened lesion on fruits, tubers, leaves, and stems resulting from an overgrowth of epidermal, cortical, and peridermal tissues. This overgrowth is usually accompanied by rupturing and suberization (corking of cell walls).
Scaling y Scorch y
The formation of scales or corky material where scales normally do not occur.
A sudden drying and browning of large, indefinite areas on leaves and fruits. Also damage to bark resulting in drying and death.
Shelling y
Shot-hole y
Silvering y
A silvery sheen or gray luster of leaf or primary bark surfaces due to the development of unnatural air spaces beneath the epidermis
Death of the entire crown of a tree causing a pattern that resembles staghead.
Circular, areolate, or irregular discolored and dead areas on leaves, fruits, or green stems.
Staghead y Streak y
Dieback or flagging of entire large branches in the crown, or of the entire top of a tree.
Elongated, narrow, lesions which are first water soaked then brown, in foliage or green stems. In wood there is discoloration in axial streaks within the outer, conducting layer of sapwood resulting from deterioration of the wood structure or extraneous components.
Stripe y
Stunting y
Suppression y Tumor y
Local swelling on any part of the plant, usually woody roots, stem, or branches, usually resulting from stimulation of the plant meristem by the pathogen.
Virescence y
The process in which a normally white or colored tissue develops chlorophyll and becomes green.
Wart y
See Hydrosis.
A flaccid appearance of leaves and shoots resulting from a temporary or permanent loss of turgor due to excess transpiration by the leaves and shoots.
Witches' broom y
A type of overgrowth in which there is an abnormal bushlike development of many weak shoots or roots.
Yellowing y
The loss of green color from chlorophyllous tissues, due to the destruction of the chlorophyll and/or degeneration of the chloroplasts, which unmasks yellow pigments.
Signs
Symptom y
Abnormal plant growth or function due to a disease. A symptom is a reaction of the PLANT.
Sign y
Pathogen parts or products seen on a host plant. A sign is the PATHOGEN itself.
Bacterial streaming y
Observation of bacteria and bacterial products streaming out of plant tissue and into water.
Ooze y
Viscid masses composed of living or dead pathogen structures and partially disintegrated host tissues.
Egg y
Mycelium y
A mass of hyphae.
Rhizomorph y
Sporocarp y Pustule y
Small blister like elevation of epidermis created as spores form underneath and push outward.
Oomycetes
Hypha y
Hyphae without crosswalls, found in Oomycetes, some other protists and some fungi.
Sexual spore produced by Oomycetes characterized by a thick cell wall, this is the resting or survival stage.
Oogonium y
Antheridium y
Sporangium y
Sporangiophore y
Zoospore y
A motile asexual spore characterized by two flagella. Found in Oomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes. Chytrids produce zoospores with a single flagellum.
Germ tube y
Germ tube
Apressorium y
The swollen tip of a hypha or germ tube that facilitates attachment and penetration of the host by a fungus.
Haustorium y
A specialized fungal hyphae that enters and absorbs nutrients from a host cell.
Ascomycetes y
Fungi in the Phylum Ascomycota that produce sexual spores in sac-like structures called asci.
Deuteromycetes y
A group of fungi with no known sexual stage. Often, when a sexual stage is discovered, these fungi turn out to be Ascomycetes.
Anamorph y
Teleomorph y Conidia y
Conidiophore y
Ascocarp y Asci y
Ascospores y
Apothecia y
Perithecia y
Cleistothecia y
Sporodochium y
An asexual fruiting structure consisting of a cluster of conidiophores woven together on a mass of hyphae.
Pycnidium y
Acervulus y
Synnema y
An asexual fruiting body consisting of fused conidiopores to form a stalk with conidia on the end.
Chlamydospores y
Sclerotia y
Colletotrichum - Species in this genus cause anthracnose diseases on many different plant hosts. Anthracnose diseases are characterized by blackened sunken leasions. Colletotrichum species produce acervuli. Fusarium - Species in this genus (most commonly Fusarium oxysporum) cause Fusarium wilt of many different plant species. Fusarium oxysporum produces microconidia, macroconidia and chlamydospores. Alternaria - Species in this genus cause lesions and blights on many different host species. Alternaria species produce dark, multicellular conidia in chains. Septoria - Species in this genus cause lesions and blights on many different host species. Septoria species produce long, thin conidia in pycnidia.
Basidiomycetes
Basidiomycetes y
Basidiocarp y
Basidium y
Basidiospores y
Dikaryotic hyphae y
Hypahe with two haploid nuclei. This is the normal vegetative state for Basidiomycetes.
Clamp connections y
Specialized hyphal structure that maintains the dikaryotic condition of Basidiomycete hyphae.
Telia y
Teliospores
y Aecia y
Overwintering spores of rusts and smuts that produce basidia and basidiospores.
Aeciospores y
Dikaryotic spore of a rust fungus produced in an aecium; in heteroecious rusts, a spore stage that infects the alternate host.
Spermatia y
Spermagonia y
Rust fruiting bodies that contain receptive hyphae and produce spermatia.
The part of a rust fungus spermogonium that receives the nucleus of a spermatium.
Uredospores y
Asexual, dikaryotic, often rusty-colored spore of a rust fungus, produced in a structure called a uredinium; the "repeating stage" of a heteroecious rust fungus, i.e. capable of infecting the host plant on which it is produced.
Macrocyclic y
Microcyclic
y
Heteroecious
y
Rusts that require two different hosts to complete their life cycle.
Autoecious
Slime molds - Fungal-like protists that can cause disease by growing on the surface of plants
Plasmodiophoromycetes y
Fungal-like protist that cause a few important plant diseases. They produce resting spores and zoospores.
Zoospore y
A motile asexual spore characterized by two flagella. Found in Oomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes. Chytrids produce zoospores with a single flagellum.
Resting spore y
Chytridiomycota y
Chytrids - True fungi that lack true mycelium. They produce resting spores and zoospores with a single flagellum.
Zygomycetes y
Group of fungi with coenocytic hyphae that produce thick walled resting spores called zygospores and sporangiospores.
Zygosporangia
Sporangiospores y
Nematodes
Nematodes y
Nematoda - Phylum of worm-like animals. Soil dwelling and plant parastic nematodes are microscopic.
Stylet y
Ectoparasite y
Endoparasite y
Sedentary y
Describes a life style of plant parasitic nematodes that stay in one place and set up a feeding site.
Migratory y
Describes a life style of plant parasitic nematodes that move through the host as they feed.
Egg y
Giant cells y
Syncytia y
Viruses
Virus y Viroids y
Nucleoprotein
Submicroscopic y
Multipartite/Multiparticulate y
Coat Protein y
Protein, encoded by virus nucleic acid, which covers the viral nucleic acid
Inclusion body y
Aggregation of virus partilces in a host cell that is visible with a compound microscope
Plasmodesmata y
A connection across a plant cell wall that connects the cytoplasm of two neighboring cells
Movement Protein y
Protien, encoded by virus nucleic acid, that facilitates the movement of the virus through the plant and/or by the vector
Vector transmission y
Mechanical transmission y
Non-persistant transmission y
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where the vector quickly picks up virus particles on its mouthparts and is infective for a short period of time (hours).
Semi-pertsistant transmission y
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where virus particles enter the vectors foregut. In this case the vector also picks up the virus quicly but is infective for somewhat longer (days) than with non-persistant transmission.
Circulative transmission
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where virus particles must circulate through the vectors hemolymph and enter the salivary glands to be tramsitted. In this case the vector aquisition and retention time is longer than with non or semi-persistant transmission.
Propagative transmission y
Refers to vector trasmission of a virus where virus particles are repliacted in the the vector. In this case the vector retention time is longer than with circulative transmission and, in some cases, the virus can be transovarially transmitted.
Transovarial transmission y
Refers to viral transmission from an insect vector to its offspring, meaning offpring of an infected vector are also infective.
Aquisition period y
Refers to the period of time need for a virus vector to aquire a virus while feeding on an infected plant host.
Inoculation period y
Refers to the period of time need for a virus vector to transmit a virus while feeding on an uninfected plant host.
Latent period y
Refers to the period of time before a vector is infective after picking up the virus from an infected host.
Hemolymph y
Viruses to know
Tobacco mosiac virus (TMV) - Highly stable, rod-shaped virus that is an important pathogen of tobacco and other solanaceous crops. It was the first virus to be discovered. Cucumber mosiac virus (CMV) - Multipartite, isometric virus that is an important pathogen of many plants, most importantly cucumbers, melons, peppers, beans, bananas and brassicas. Potato virus Y (PVY) - Flexuous rod-shaped virus that is an important pathogen of potato and other solanaceous crops. Papaya ringspot virus (PRV) - Flexuous rod-shaped virus that is an important pathogen of papaya. It almost destroyed papaya production in Hawaii until a genetically engineered resistance was developed.
Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) - Spherical virus with a membrane enclosing the nucleoprotien that is an important pathogen with a wide host range. Return to the top of the page
Bacteria
Bacteria y
Extracellular polysacharide y
Substance produced and excreted by bacteria for protection and/or adherance. It is what gives bacterial colonies a "slimy" appearance when grown in culture.
Flagellum y Pili y
Hair-like appendage of found on the surface of a baterium. Used for conjugation with another bacterium.
Plasmid y
Gram positive y
Refers to a group of bacteria with one membrane in association with their cell wall.
Refers to a group of bacteria with two membranes in association with their cell wall.
Quorum sensing y
Dependence of bacterial behavior and pathogenicity on thier cells reaching a certain density by sensing the concentration of certain signal molecules.
Phage
Transposons/Insertion elements y
Natural transformation/competence y
Ti-plasmid y
Tumor inducing plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens that causes gall formation and opine production by infected plants.
Opines y
Protein sectretion system used by some bacteria to inject bacterial proteins into a host cell.
Stomates y
Parasitic plants
Plant parasitic plants y
Vascular, flowering plants that get nutrients directly from the host plant. These plants have a close relatioship with the host plant. They have specialized structures (haustoria) to enter the host's vasuclar tissues and retrieve nutrients.
Haustoria y
Specialized structure, a modified root, of a parasitic plant that enters the host host plant and obtains nutrients. (The same term is used for a specialized fungal hyphae that enters and absorbs nutrients from a host cell.)
Hemiparasites y
Parasitic plants that have chlorphyl and can make some of their own sugar but still rely on thier host for water and other nutrients.
Holoparasites y
Parasitic plants that do not have chlorphyl and rely on thier host for all nutrients.
Climbing vines y
A group of plants that have roots and grow in the soil, but still damage other plants by growing over them and restricting photosynthesis and/or vascular systems.
Epidemiology
Epidemic y
Epidemiology y
Disease incidence y
Disease severity y
Polycyclic disease y
A disease with several cycles each year (or growing season) of inoculum production and infection.
Monocycic disease y
A disease where only one disease cycle is completed each year or growing season.
Primary inoculum y
Inoculum that produces the first infection of plants in a year or growing season.
Secondary inoculum y
Inoculum produced by previous infections that infect in the same year or growing season.
Inoculum density y
Disease-gradient curve y
Diagnosis
Selective medium y
Medium used to isolate a target organism, and no other organisms. These media are designed to enhance growth of the target organism while inhibiting growth of non-target organisms.
Differential medium y
Medium that differentiates between the target organism and all others that may grow on that particular medium. Differentiation is often based on color.
Indicator plants y
Differential hosts y
Host range can be tested and compared to known pathogens for identification
Antibodies y
Antigens y ELISA y
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay - a test used to detect antigens. Antibodies can be created to detect pathogen proteins.
PCR y
Polymerase chain reaction - technique to amplify sequences of DNA. Can be used to detect specific sequences of pathogen DNA.
DNA fingerprinting y
Technique for pathogen identification where restirction enzymnes are used to cut genomic DNA, producing a pattern specific to a pathogen.
Prevent disease by selecting a time of the year or a site where there is no inoculum or where the environment is not favorable for infection.
Exclusion y
Eradication y
Protection y
Resistance y
Therapy y
The activity of any organims that suppresses the activity of a pest organism. An antagonist is not autmatically a biological control agent, but antagonists are used to create biological controls.
Crop rotation y
Planting of different crops in the same area in sequential years (or seasons) to balance fertility and reduce the build up of crop pests.
The attempt to prevent pests from causing economic damage by using a variety of management methods that are cost effective and cause the least damage to the environment.
Host resistance
Interaction phenotype y
The phenotypic reaction of a plant to an interaction with a potential pathogen at a given point in time and environment.
Susceptible y
Phenotypic expression related to extensive symptom development and/or pathogen reproduction and accomplished by uninhibited invasion of host by pathogen.
Resistant y
Phenotypic expression related to complete or partial suppression of symptom severity and/or pathogen reproduction and accomplished by arrested or slowed invasion of host by pathogen.
Partial resistance y
Expression of symptoms, but less than full susceptibility or greater than complete resistance.
Non-host reaction y
No interaction of pathogen and host; the pathogen is unable to infect the plant because the plant is not a host.
Hypersensitive response y
Plant responds to pathogen infection by quickly killing the infected cells, blocking the advance of the pathogen.
Pathogenicity/Virulence y
Refers to the ability of a microbe to cause disease (invade, infect, cause symptoms, reproduce).
Avirulence y Race
A genetically and often geographically distinct mating group within a species; also a group of pathogens that infect a given set of plant varieties.
Aggressiveness y
Resistance attributed to the function of a single gene. Often confering complete resistance or hypersensitive response.
Polygenic resistance y
Resistance attributed to the function of multiple genes. Often confering partial resistance.
Resistance that is effective against only one race of a pathogen and not other races of the same pathogen.
Rate-reducing resistance y
Partial resistance where that pathogen is able to infect the plant but reproduction is reduced or eliminated thereby reducing the spread of the pathogen.
R gene y
Avr gene y
Avirulence gene, a pathogen gene whose product is recognized by a plant and leads to a resistant reaction in the plant.
Avr protein/effector y
A pathogen protein that is recognized and leads to a resistant reaction in resistant plants but that is often a virulence factor in susceptible plants.
Whole plant resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen.
Transgenic plants y
Plants that have been genetically manipulated to express a gene from a different species.
Chemical control
Preventative y
Curative y
Refers to a chemical control method aimed at inhibiting the development of an established infection.
Protectant y
Refers to a chemical meant to reside on the plant surface as a preventative control measure.
Systemic y
Refers to a chemical meant to be taken up by and distributed throughout the plant as a preventative or curative control measure.
ED 50 y
Effective dose, the amount needed to have the desired effect in 50% of the population.
Active ingredient y
Mode of action y
The molecluar mechanism of a pesticide; how the chemical interacts with the pathogen. Pesticides are grouped by mode of action. Some groups of pesticides are more likely to lead to the development of resistance than others.
Fumigant y
A toxic gas or volitile substance that is used to disinfest soil of various pests.