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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 3
09/11/2012

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Term
Disease
Definition
-Harm or injury
-Progressive
Term
Causes of disease
Definition
-Abiotic (nonliving)
-Biotic (living)
Term
Disease Pyramid
Definition
Disease
-Susceptible Plant (top)
-Conducive environment (bottom)
-Time (right)
-Virulent Pathogen (left)
Term
Symptoms
Definition
Expressions of disease by a plant -Stunting -Chlorosis -Necrosis
Term
Pathogen
Definition

-a parasite that causes harm

-infectious

Term
Parasite
Definition
-obtains nutrients from another living organism -not necessarily a pathogen
Term
Obligate Pathogen
Definition
-one that is entirely dependent upon a host for its survival. -can't be grown artificially
Term
Facultative
Definition
-capable of changing life-style, e.g. from saprophytic (nourish. from nonliving) to parasitic (nourish. from living) or the reverse
Term
Plant Host
Definition
a living plant attacked by or harboring a parasite or pathogen and from which the invader obtains part or all of its nourishment.
Term
Saprophyte
Definition
an organism that obtains nourishment from nonliving organic matter
Term
Biotroph
Definition
an organism that can live and multiply only on another living organism (see also obligate parasite) contrasts with necrotroph)
Term
Necrotrophs
Definition
a parasite that typically kills host cells and obtains its energy from them (contrasts with biotroph)
Term
monocyclic
Definition
having one disease or life cycle per growing season
Term
Polycyclic
Definition
having several to many disease cycles in a growing season (contrasts with monocyclic)
Term
Antheridium
Definition
a male sexual organ (male gametangium) found in some fungi and funguslike organisms
Term
Oogonium
Definition
the female gametangium of members of the Oomycota (the oomycetes), containing one or more gametes
Term
Oospore
Definition
a thick-walled, sexually-derived resting spore of the Oomycota (the oomycetes)
Term
Sporangium
Definition
a saclike structure in which the entire contents are converted into an indefinite number of asexual spores in certain fungi and funguslike organisms
Term
Zoospores
Definition
a spore of a fungus or funguslike organism with flagella, capable of locomotion in water
Term
Germ Tube
Definition
a hypha resulting from an outgrowth of the spore wall and cytoplasm after germination
Term
Haustorium
Definition
a specialized branch of a parasite formed inside host cells to absorb nutrients
Term
Haploid
Definition
having a single complete set of chromosomes (1N chromosomes) (contrasts with dikaryotic, diploid, polyploid)
Term
Dikaryotic
Definition
having two sexually compatible haploid nuclei per cell, that divide simultaneously; this phase is called the dikaryophase (contrasts with haploid, diploid, polyploid)
Term
Diploid
Definition
having two complete sets of chromosomes (2N chromosomes) (contrasts with haploid, dikaryotic, polyploid)
Term
Hypha
Definition
a single, tubular filament of a fungal thallus or mycelium; the basic structural unit of a fungus
Term
Telemorph
Definition
the sexual form in the life cycle of a fungus (see also perfect state) (contrasts with anamorph, holomorph, imperfect state)
Term
Thallus
Definition
the vegetative body of a fungus or a "simple plant," such as a moss
Term
Holomorph
Definition
the whole fungus in all its states (contrasts with anamorph, imperfect state, perfect state, teleomorph)
Term
Anamorph
Definition
the asexual form in the life cycle of a fungus, when asexual spores (such as conidia) or no spores are produced (see also imperfect state) (contrasts with holomorph, teleomorph, perfect state)
Term
Chlorosis
Definition
the failure of chlorophyll development, caused by disease or a nutritional disturbance; fading of green plant color to light green, yellow, or white
Term
Coenocytic
Definition
having multiple nuclei embedded in cytoplasm without cross walls (see also aseptate; nonseptate) (contrasts with septate)
Term
Coccus
Definition
a spherical (or near-spherical) bacterial cell
Term
Conidium
Definition
an asexual, nonmotile fungal spore that develops externally or is liberated from the cell that formed it
Term
Ascomycota
Definition
a group of fungi that produce sexual spores (ascospores) within a saclike structure called an ascus; ascomycetes; sac fungi
Term
Basidiomycota
Definition
a group of fungi that produce sexual spores (basidiospores) externally on a structure called a basidium; basidiomycetes; mushroom fungi
Term
Oomycota
Definition
a group of funguslike organisms - typically with nonseptate mycelia, asexual sporangia and zoospores, and sexual oospores - in the kingdom Stramenopila (or Straminipila); oomycetes
Term
Kochs Postulates
Definition
the procedure used to prove the pathogenicity of an organism, i.e., its role as the causal agent of a disease
Term
Kochs Postulates
Definition
1. Observe consistent association between host & pathogen
2. isolate & characterize cause
3. inoculate healthy host w/ pathogen & produce same disease
4. isolate & characterize pathogen & confirm same pathogen
Term
Gamete
Definition
A sex cell
Term
Plant
Definition
Multicellular forms having cellulose cell walls and capable of photosynthesis by means of chlorophyll
Term
Plasmogamy
Definition
the fusion of 2 sex cells
Term
Shepherd’s crook
Definition
the curved, apical portion of a blighted stem (see also crozier)
Term
Apple Scab (Disease)
Definition
Pathogen: Venturia inaequalis
Hosts: Apples, hawthorn, firethorn, mountain ash
Signs/Symptoms: Blistered lesions on fruit/underside leaves
Management: Chemical fungicides (preventative/curative)
Cultivars (Enterprise, Freedom, G. Rush
Cultural Practices such as pruning to allow
air flow & sunlight
Term
Heterothallus
Definition
sexual reproduction can occur only in the presence of genetically different mycelia (contrasts with homothallism)
Term
Homothallus
Definition
sexual reproduction occurs with a single thallus; self-fertile (contrasts with heterothallism)
Term
Sign
Definition
an indication of disease from direct observation of a pathogen or its parts (contrasts with symptom)
Term
deuteromycetes
Definition
an archaic term for a group of fungi without a sexual stage; the asexual stage of members of Ascomycota (the ascomycetes) and Basidiomycota (the basidiomycetes) (see also Fungi Imperfecti, imperfect fungi)
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