PLANTS, PATHOGENS, AND PEOPLE - 2 (undergraduates, general education)

Categories: Life Cycles of the Rich and Fungus, The Famous and Not So Famous, What's Causing This?, Elementary Epiphytotics, Is This a History Test?, One Both or Neither

$100 A pathogen or its structures capable of initiating infection.

INOCULUM

$200 A living organism that transmits a pathogen.

VECTOR

$300 An organism that can survive without oxygen.

ANAEROBIC

$400 An organism that can obtain nutrients from dead organic matter.

SAPROPHYTE

$500 Composed of cells which each contain two different haploid nuclei.

DIKARYOTE

$100 He was the first to demonstrate that fungal spores can infect a plant and cause symptoms.

ANTON DEBARY

$200 He was dispatched to Ceylon to solve the coffee rust problem

H. MARSHALL WARD

$300 He devised the Latin binomial system of taxonomy.

CAROLUS LINNAEUS

$400 He was the first to use Cu as a fungicide.

M. PREVOST

$500 He discovered DDT and won the Nobel Prize.

MUELLER

$100 Fire blight.

ERWINIA AMYLOVORA

$200 Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

CROWN GALL

$300 South American leaf blight of rubber.

MICROCYCLUS ULEI

$400 Damping off.

PYTHIUM

$500 Fusarium oxysporum.

PANAMA DISEASE

$100 This epidemic was caused by monsoon rains extending into the dry season.

BENGAL FAMINE

$200 An organism which does not produce secondary inoculum during the growing season.

MONOCYCLIC

$300 This disease was eradicated by cutting and burning infected trees.

CITRUS CANKER

$400 The pathogen structures that initiate multiple disease cycles during a season.

SECONDARY INOCULUM

$500 He was President of the U.S. during the Irish potato famine.

JAMES K. POLK

$100 The year coffee rust was found in Ceylon.

1868

$200 The decade that fungi are first proposed to cause plant disease.

1840s

$300 The most devastating year of the Southern corn leaf blight epidemic.

1970

$400 The decade that the first genetically engineered food was available to the public.

1990s

$500 The year that Louis Pasteur proposed the germ theory of disease.

1863

$100 Ooze is a common sign of infection.

BACTERIA

$200 Create entry sites in hosts.

FUNGI

$300 Members of the animal kingdom.

NEITHER

$400 Produce toxins that affect host plants.

BOTH

$500 Cause hundreds of economically important plant diseases every year.

FUNGI