| 单词 | ring rot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasring rot ring rot n. [in sense (b) after German Bakterienringfäule (A. Spieckermann 1914, in Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 46 v. 660)] (a) a disease of pine trees which causes the trunks to decay (now rare); (b) a disease of the potato caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium sepedonicum and resulting in rings of yellow rot in the tubers, a serious problem in parts of North America and northern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > bacterial diseases > associated with food or crop plants fire blight1742 apple blight1835 pear blight1854 leaf scald1870 ring rot1875 angular leaf spot1896 blackarm1902 Moko1913 halo blight1920 1875 A. W. Young Hist. Chautauqua County, N.Y. 377 They [sc. pine boards] were not all rotten as so called, but had ring rot stripes of a spongy appearance, and were used by many for log house chamber floors. 1914 J. Neuman Polyporaceae Wisconsin 17 Lumbermen regard this ring rot as one of the commonest and most destructive of the enemies of the white pine. 1920 E. F. Smith Introd. Bacterial Dis. Plants iv. i. 474 Spieckermann's ring rot of Potato. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 30 May 7/5 Even though potatoes ‘look nice’ they may harbor the dangerous ring-rot disease. 2003 Independent 14 Nov. i. 6/2 It was hoped that the ring rot outbreak had been caught before it could spread. < as lemmas |
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