phytopathogenicityn.
/ˌfʌɪtəʊpaθədʒəˈnɪsᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌfaɪdoʊˌpæθədʒəˈnɪsᵻdi/ Biology.
The property of producing disease in plants.
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phytotoxicity1945
phytopathogenicity1947
1947 Science 19 Sept. 271/2 H. victoriae is primarily a facultative soil- and seed-borne saprophyte that possesses a low order of phytopathogenicity.
1959 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 13 224 Considerable effort has been expended in recent years in relating phytopathogenicity to discrete bacterial substances (‘toxins’) which induce disease symptoms in the host plant.
2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 4961/1 They can be divided into the nonselective mycotoxins, phytotoxic to a broader range of organisms than the producing fungus infests and..the host-selective mycotoxins, primary determinants of phytopathogenicity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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