Plant Disease Management Handbook

The condition in which the cells of the host become reddish or dark brown and collapse.

Camellia Sunburn

Producing fusing gametes on the same mycelium.

The asexual, globose or flask­shaped fruiting body of fungi that produces conidia.

Pycnidium

A state or condition in which normally white or colored tissues, such as flower petals, become green.

Decay of seeds in the soil (pre-emergent damping-off) or young seedlings before or after emergence (post-emergent damping-off).

Damping-off

Present but not manifest or visible, as a symptomless infection.

Infection resulting from the spread of infectious material produced after a primary infection.

A specific protein formed in the blood of warmblooded animals in response to the injection of an antigen.

Any of various complex, spore-bearing fungal structures.

A round to flask­shaped, thick­walled spore­case with an ostiole (pore) and containing asci.