DISEASES OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS - 2
(undergraduate and graduate students)

Categories: Acronyms, Sleep Sleep Sleep, Parts is Parts, Down and Dirty, Black & White, Tater Topics II

$100 VFN

$200 IPM

$300 Agency responsible for certification of fruit tree propagation stock.

[ IR-2 ]

$400 APHIS

$500 ELISA

SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP (resting/overwintering of pathogen causing disease)

$100 Fusarium wilt of tomato.

CHLAMYDOSPORES

$200 White mold of bean.

SCLEROTIA

$300 Potato ring rot.

TUBERS

$400 Erwinia stewartii.

BEETLES

$500 Tomato ringspot virus.

NEMATODES; WEEDS

PARTS IS PARTS (vegetatively propagated crops)

$100 General term for the procedure for testing to determine pathogen presence in cuttings etc.

INDEXING

$200 Type of plant part/cutting used to eliminate vascular pathogens.

MERISTEM CULTURE

$300 Cultural procedure used to eliminate some viruses from cuttings or budwood.

HEAT

$400 A floricultural crop where tissue culture propagation is routinely used to produce selling stock.

FERNS, ORCHIDS

$500 Pre-biotech term for a somatic variant including those differing in disease reaction.

SPORT

$100 A vascular wilt caused by a non-specific soil-borne fungus.

VERTICILLIUM

$200 A vascular wilt caused by a soil-borne fungus which has many host-specific forms.

FUSARIUM

$300 Root rot of pea caused by a water mold.

APHANOMYCES

$400 The most important disease of avocado in the U.S.

PHYTOPHTHORA ROOT ROT

$500 Disease caused by Sclerotium rolfsii.

SOUTHERN BLIGHT

$100 Rhizoctonia on potato.

BLACK SCURF

$200 Erwinia on potato or Pythium on geranium.

BLACK LEG

$300 Phoma on cabbage.

BLACK LEG

$400 Albugo on spinach.

WHITE RUST

$500 Sclerotinia on bean.

WHITE MOLD

$100 Systemic fungicide widely used for late blight.

VARIOUS

$200 Tuber disease caused by an Actinomycete.

SCAB

$300 Disease in which both tuber-borne and soil-borne inoculum are important.

VERTICILLIUM

$400 Storage disease caused by Pythium.

LEAK

$500 Disease caused by a viroid.

SPINDLE TUBER