The drying up and shriveling of fruits and other plant parts.
These blueberry fruit are becoming mummified due to infection by Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi.
Photo by Jay Pscheidt, 1993.
Short, club-shaped fungus cell on which basidiospores are produced.
A modified mycelial branch that grows into a plant cell, makes intimate contact with the protoplast, and absorbs food. Also used for parasitic plants.
The part of an organism that may be spread so as to reproduce the organism.
An entity capable of producing disease.
One or more races of a pathogen that are characterized by the limitation of their host range to a certain genus or genera. Also, a group of closely related plants of common origin and similar characteristics within a species (see also Cultivar).
A cluster of erect fungus filaments (hyphae) that are joined together to form a column and that bear asexual spores (conidia).
Between the cells.
Crustlike disease lesion.
Scab lesions distort apples and can cause them to split open and rot from other organisms.
