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Insects and Diseases
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Plant Sciences
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06/18/2023

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Abiotic or Biotic: Nutritional deficiencies, soil compaction, salt injury, ice damage, and sun scorch.
Definition
Abiotic
Term
Abiotic or Biotic: Caused by living organisms
Definition
Biotic
Term
What organisms cause the most plant diseases?
Definition
Fungi and fungal-like organisms
Term
What are single-celled microscopic organisms with cell walls that reproduce by binary fission?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What 2 ways can bacteria enter plants?
Definition
Natural openings or wounds
Term
What overwinters in soil or plant material that doesn't decompose, and some survive inside insect vectors?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What are bacteria-like organisms that lack cell walls and thus appear filamentous?
Definition
Phytoplasmas
Term
What are intracellular parasites with a protein coat that infect living organisms and replicate in hosts?
Definition
Viruses and viroids
Term
What are microscopic worm-like animals?
Definition
Nematodes
Term
What are plants that contain chlorophyll but cannot produce their own food, so they parasitize other plants to obtain nutrients and water? Example is mistletoe.
Definition
Parasitic high plants
Term
What are the 3 components of the disease triangle?
Definition
Environment, pathogen, and host
Term
Which part of the disease cycle is the introduction of the plant pathogen to the host?
Definition
Inoculation
Term
Which part of the disease cycle are wound sites and natural plant openings that facilitate the entrance of plant pathogens?
Definition
Penetration
Term
Which part of the disease cycle occurs when the pathogen invades the plant tissue?
Definition
Infection
Term
Which part of the disease cycle is when a pathogen is in a plant, but remains latent for a period of time?
Definition
Incubation
Term
What type of disease is brown spot?
Definition
Fungal
Term
What are continuous irritations that are caused by fungal, bacteria, viruses, or other things?
Definition
Disease
Term
What is transient and is caused by insects?
Definition
Injury
Term
What is the pathogen or products from the pathogen that are seen on a plant?
Definition
Signs
Term
What is a physical change or alteration on a plant that is caused by disease or injury?
Definition
Symptom
Term
What are the main symptoms of leaf spots, canker, rots, and blights?
Definition
Necrosis
Term
What are the main symptoms of stunting, distortion, galls, and witch's brooms?
Definition
Abnormal growth/development
Term
What are the main symptoms of chlorosis, mosaic, streaking, and red growth?
Definition
Abnormal pigmentation
Term
What is the main symptom of collapse due to the vascular system?
Definition
Wilt
Term
What is the opposite of susceptible and has properties that prevent or impede disease development?
Definition
Resistance
Term
What is the ability to endure diseases without substantial loss to plant growth?
Definition
Tolerance
Term
What is a plant that a disease or pest can't infect?
Definition
Immunity
Term
Thorough, consistent, and regular ________ results in early pest detection and provides information about the identity, location, and cause of the pest problem.
Definition
Scouting
Term
What are plants that are known to be susceptible to certain pests and are often the first ones infested?
Definition
Indicator plants
Term
Cucurbits and eggplants are good indicator plants for what pest?
Definition
Whiteflies
Term
Marigolds and petunias are good indicator plants for what pest?
Definition
Thrips
Term
Nasturtiums is a good indicator plant for what pest?
Definition
Aphids
Term
Beans is a good indicator plant for what pest?
Definition
Spider mites
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes spindly plants with reduced shoot, lateral, and root growth, and chlorosis most visible on older leaves?
Definition
Nitrogen
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes purple leaves and petioles?
Definition
Phosphorus
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes chlorosis between leaf veins on older leaves, and necrotic spots or scorching on leaf margins?
Definition
Potassium
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes slight chlorosis to brown/black scorching on new leaf tips and dieback of growing points? Does not cause blossom end rot in tomatoes.
Definition
Boron
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes slight chlorosis to brown/black scorching on new leaf tips and dieback of growing points, dry leaves do not crumble, and results in blossom end rot in tomatoes?
Definition
Calcium
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes interveinal chlorotic mottling of immature leaves and have a yellow streak down the middle of leaves?
Definition
Iron
Term
What nutrient deficiency causes older leaves to have chlorotic interveinal yellow patches or mottling at the center of the leaf moving outward?
Definition
Magnesium
Term
What nutrient deficiency is similar to iron deficiency, but necrotic spots appear in interveinal tissues and blossom buds don't fully develop, yellow, and abort?
Definition
Manganese
Term
What nutrient deficiency is similar to nitrogen, but the stems become thin, hard, and woody?
Definition
Sulfur
Term
What nutrient deficiency has interveinal chlorosis similar to iron and manganese deficiencies, but extremely small leaves develop?
Definition
Zinc
Term
T/F Symptoms can move from one infected plant to another.
Definition
False
Term
What is anthracnose caused by?
Definition
Fungi
Term
What 2 things often cause phytotoxicity in plants?
Definition
Herbicides and petroleum products
Term
What is the result of rapid water loss by evaporation in the leaves?
Definition
Leaf scorch
Term
When is leaf scorch most common?
Definition
Mid to late summer
Term
What happens to leaves when they accumulate light energy much faster than it can be converted to chemical energy?
Definition
Photo-oxidation (type of leaf scorch)
Term
What is the best way to combat winter desiccation?
Definition
Water plants during dry periods in late fall
Term
What happens when plants take up more water through the roots than they can use or release through their leaves?
Definition
Edema/Intumescence
Term
What causes the most damage by freezing during winter followed by deacclimation during temporary warm weather?
Definition
South Western Injury
Term
What happens when swelling occurs as cells divide more rapidly than normal and/or due to excessive cell enlargement?
Definition
Galls/burls
Term
What can induce winter desiccation besides wind?
Definition
Salt damage
Term
Mobile or Immobile: N
Definition
Mobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: P
Definition
Mobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: K
Definition
Mobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Mg
Definition
Mobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Ca
Definition
Immobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: S
Definition
Immobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Fe
Definition
Immobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Mn
Definition
Immobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Zn
Definition
Immobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Cu
Definition
Immobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: B
Definition
Immobile
Term
Fe is a __________ plant nutrient, so
deficiencies are first seen in ___________ leaves.
Definition
Immobile, new
Term
Ca is a __________ plant nutrient, so
deficiencies are first seen in ___________ leaves.
Definition
Immobile, new
Term
Mg is a __________ plant nutrient, so
deficiencies are first seen in ___________ leaves.
Definition
Mobile, old
Term
What type of pathogen usually causes streaming or oozing?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What pathogen cause spots, water-soaked appearance, wilts, and galls?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What 2 things can you treat seeds with to kill bacteria?
Definition
Hot water and chlorine
Term
What type of pathogen has no signs, is systemic, and is not curable?
Definition
Viruses
Term
What 2 vectors often spread viruses to plants?
Definition
Humans and insects
Term
What is spread by contaminated garden tools and infected plants in hostas?
Definition
Hosta Virus X
Term
What hosta virus causes mottling of leaves, puckering, circular discolored areas (ringspots), and/or wilting and tissue death?
Definition
Hosta Virus X
Term
What affects many horticultural crops, is spread by western flower thrips, cuttings from infected plants, and weed hosts?
Definition
Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus
Term
What plant virus can cause chicken pox-like sunken spots on leaves?
Definition
Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus
Term
What virus is spread by human hands, garden tools, weed hosts, and causes a mosaic pattern and yellowish rings on fruit?
Definition
Tobacco Mosaic Virus
Term
What virus affects cherry, birch, and hackberry trees?
Definition
Cherry Leaf Roll Virus
Term
Is a water-soaked appearance more common in fungal or bacterial infections?
Definition
Bacterial
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Which is more likely to have a dryish-papery texture?
Definition
Fungal
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Has an odor
Definition
Bacterial
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Circular with concentric circle
Definition
Fungal
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Disintegration is common
Definition
Bacterial
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Color changes
Definition
Fungal
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Has visible pathogen structures
Definition
Fungal
Term
Yellow haloing around lesions is common from what type of infection?
Definition
Bacterial
Term
Fungal or Bacterial: Bullseye appearance
Definition
Fungal
Term
What pathogen causes fire blight?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What pathogen causes leaf spot, soft rot, and wilting?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What bacterial disease causes leaves to blight, turn black, and affected shoots will curl?
Definition
Fire blight
Term
What are 3 types of vector transmission of viruses?
Definition
Nonpersistent (Noncirculative, stylet born), Persistent Circulative, and Persistent Propagative (Replicates inside vector)
Term
What transmits Impatiens Necrotic Spot and Tomato Spotted Wilt?
Definition
Thrips
Term
What transmits Tomato Ring Spot?
Definition
Dagger nematode
Term
What 2 insects transmit Leaf Roll Virus?
Definition
Aphids and mealybugs
Term
14% of plants lost is caused by which pathogen?
Definition
Nematodes
Term
What are the 4 lifecycles of nematodes?
Definition
Sedentary, migratory, ectoparasitic (surface layers), and endoparasitic (must enter plant tissue)
Term
What causes twisting, distortion, and discoloration of stems and foliage in bulbs?
Definition
Bulb and stem nematodes
Term
What causes Pine Wilt?
Definition
Nematodes
Term
What pathogen causes Root Knot?
Definition
Nematodes
Term
What is caused by nematodes feeding which causes increased root cell numbers and size?
Definition
Root Knot
Term
What type of nematode infects most legumes and was introduced into Iowa 30 years ago?
Definition
Soybean Cyst Nematodes
Term
What causes crown gall?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What are 5 parthenogenic species?
Definition
Crocodiles, aphids, Komodo Dragons, bees, and turkeys
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Seen in old growth first
Definition
Mobile
Term
Mobile or Immobile: Seen in new growth first
Definition
Immobile
Term
What are the 3 components of the diagnostic triangle?
Definition
Signs, symptoms, environment
Term
Order from most harmful to least harmful: Facultative parasite, obligate parasite, facultative saprophyte, and obligate saprophyte.
Definition
Obligate parasite, facultative saprophyte, facultative parasite, and obligate saprophyte
Term
What strategy is planting when pathogen isn't active or there?
Definition
Avoidance
Term
What strategy is preventing introduction of the pathogen?
Definition
Exclusion
Term
What strategy is eliminating, inactivating, or destroying the pathogen?
Definition
Eradication
Term
What strategy is protecting the plant against the pathogen and reducing exposure?
Definition
Protection
Term
What strategy is using cultivars that are resistant to infection?
Definition
Resistance
Term
What strategy is using thermo/chemotherapy and/or meristem culture?
Definition
Therapy
Term
What 2 chemicals often cause damage due to drift?
Definition
2, 4-D and glyphosate
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