a virulent bacterial disease of potatoes occurring in the vascular ring of the potato tuber
Also called: potato ring rot
ring rot in American English
noun
Plant Pathology
a disease of potatoes, characterized by wilted foliage and rotting of the ring of vascular bundles in the tubers, caused by a bacterium Corynebacterium sepedonicum
Word origin
[1900–05, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burnout, clone, geopolitics, hookup, throwaway
Examples of 'ring rot' in a sentence
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Ten effective markers for apple ring rot were developed.
Fei Shen, Zhenyu Huang, Baoguo Zhang, Yi Wang, Xi Zhang, Ting Wu, Xuefeng Xu, XinzhongZhang, Zhenhai Han 2019, 'Mapping Gene Markers for Apple Fruit Ring Rot Disease Resistance Using a Multi-omicsApproach', G3: Genes, Genomes, Geneticshttp://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.119.400167. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nano-composites anti-microbe activity was studied on the investigated strain of potato ring rot.
Graskova I.A., М.А. Zhivet'yev, G.B. Borovskii, B.G. Sukhov 2012, 'BACTERICIDE IMPACT OF POLYMER-STABILIZED MULTI-FUNCTIONAL NANO-COMPOSITES', Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistryhttp://www.jspb.ru/issues/2012/N3/JSPB_2012_3_S33.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)