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black rot

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black rot [′blak ‚rät]
(plant pathology)
Any fungal or bacterial disease of plants characterized by dark brown discoloration and decay of a plant part.


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Cyclamen are susceptible to black rot and tasty to slugs and snails.
Bhardwaj and his colleagues demonstrated that 27 to 35 percent of peanut plants grown on soil treated with rapeseed meal had symptoms of black rot, a common fungal disease, compared to 50 percent of plants grown in untreated soil.
It is highly effective against powdery mildew, downy mildew, black rot and Phomopsis cane and leafspot on grapes; scab and anthracnose on pecans; white mold, Rhizoctonia limb and peg rot, and early and late leaf spot on peanuts; blossom blight and scab on peaches; and black sigatoka on bananas.
 
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