late blight disease of potato

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• late blight — noun blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans • Hypernyms: ↑blight • Hyponyms: ↑celery blight * * * noun : a blight of plants in which… …   Useful english dictionary

• late blight — Plant Pathol. a disease of plants, esp. potatoes, celery, etc., characterized by spotting, blighting, and withering or decay of the entire plant, caused by any of several fungi, as Phytophthora infestans or Septoria apii. [1900 05] * * * ▪ plant… …   Universalium

• late blight — noun Date: 1900 a disease of solanaceous plants (as the potato and tomato) that is caused by a fungus (Phytophthora infestans) and is characterized by decay of stems, leaves, and in the potato also of tubers …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Potato — Irish potato redirects here. For the confectionery, see Irish potato candy. For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). Potato …   Wikipedia

• Blight — refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism. It is simply a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs. [Agrios, George …   Wikipedia

• potato fungus — noun fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers • Syn: ↑Pellicularia filamentosa, ↑Rhizoctinia solani • Hypernyms: ↑fungus • Member Holonyms: ↑Pellicularia, ↑genus Pellicularia …   Useful english dictionary

• Plant disease symptoms — ▪ Table Plant disease symptoms description and causes examples prenecrotic symptom expression that precedes the death of cells or the disintegration of tissues water soaking a water soaked, translucent condition of tissues caused by water moving… …   Universalium

• plant disease — ▪ plant pathology Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. Although each species is… …   Universalium

• Irish Potato Famine — (1845–49) Famine that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed in successive years. By the early 1840s almost half the Irish population, particularly the rural poor, was depending almost entirely on the potato for nourishment. A reliance… …   Universalium

• early blight — noun : any of several blights of plants in which symptoms appear early in the season: as a. : a leaf spot especially of the potato and tomato that is caused by a fungus (Alternaria solani) compare late blight b. : a leaf spot of celery caused by… …   Useful english dictionary

• Plant disease epidemiology — is the study of disease in plant populations. Much like diseases of humans and animals, plant diseases occur due to pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, oomycetes, nematodes, phytoplasmas, protozoa, and parasitic plants.cite book| last… …   Wikipedia