单词 | apple canker |
释义 | > as lemmasapple canker apple canker n. any of various cankers affecting apple trees, esp. that caused by the ascomycete fungus Nectria galligena. ΚΠ 1893 Agric. Gaz. New S. Wales 3 439 Apple canker... There are numerous fungi,..which are accustomed to attack..fresh wounds in the bark. A spore of one of these fungi having been carried into the wound, germinates and grows at the expense of the freshly exposed bark tissues. 1950 L. E. Hawker Physiol. Fungi vi. 177 Some such mechanism may account for the fact that the conidia of certain disease organisms, such as Nectria galligena , the cause of apple canker, are discharged only during rainy weather. 2004 Bellingham (Washington) Herald (Nexis) 13 Nov. 3 c Rotted-out patches of trunk bark and girdling twigs and branches may be symptoms of various apple cankers that will weaken and eventually kill apple trees. < as lemmas |
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