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RESISTANCE INFECTION [1 record]

Record 1 2004-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
DEF

Ability of a plant which, in a given population of a species or variety of plants in which a disease is prevalant, remains free from disease although it possesses no natural inherent resistance to the disease.

OBS

Sometimes plants escape attack because of the way they grow; for example, an early-maturing plant escapes late-season diseases. That kind of escape is called klendusity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes

Spanish

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