Plants

Plants

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.

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parasexualism

Plants; Plant pathology

A type of recombination, found in certain heterokaryotic fungi, that is based on mitosis rather than meiosis. Genetically distinct haploid nuclei fuse in the heterokaryon. The ...

internal transcribed spacers

Plants; Plant pathology

Regions of a DNA sequence that separate genes for certain ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs. ) These genes appear to be nearly identical among a wide variety of species, but the DNA spacers ...

internal transcribed spacers (ITS)

Plants; Plant pathology

Regions of a DNA sequence that separate genes for certain ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs. ) These genes appear to be nearly identical among a wide variety of species, but the DNA spacers ...

circulative-propagative transmission

Plants; Plant pathology

Pathogen transmission characterized by a long period of acquisition of the pathogen (usually a mollicute, e.g. phytoplasma or spiroplasma, and sometimes a virus) by a vector ...

propagative transmission

Plants; Plant pathology

Pathogen transmission characterized by a long period of acquisition of the pathogen (usually a mollicute, e.g. phytoplasma or spiroplasma, and sometimes a virus) by a vector ...

circulative propagative transmission

Plants; Plant pathology

Pathogen transmission characterized by a long period of acquisition of the pathogen (usually a mollicute, e.g. phytoplasma or spiroplasma, and sometimes a virus) by a vector ...

species

Plants; Plant pathology

Any one kind of life subordinate to a genus but above a race; a group of closely related individuals of the same ancestry, resembling one another in certain inherited ...