ring rot fungus

Thân thiện

A farmer examines a sweet potato with ring rot fungus in the field.

Definition

Noun: A fungus that causes a specific type of decay in plants. It leads to a soft, watery rot in fruits and vegetables. On sweet potato plants, it creates distinctive rings of dry rot around the roots.

Usage Notes

This is a technical, scientific term used primarily in agriculture, botany, and plant pathology. It refers to the causal agent of a disease, not the disease symptoms themselves. It is typically used in formal or educational contexts.

Examples

• The entire crop was lost to ring rot fungus.
• Researchers are studying ways to control the spread of ring rot fungus.
• A key symptom of infection by ring rot fungus is the presence of concentric dry rings on sweet potatoes.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used attributively (like an adjective) before other nouns.
  • Example: "The ring rot fungus infection devastated the yield."

Variants and Related Words

• Ring rot (noun): The name of the plant disease caused by the ring rot fungus.
• Soft rot (noun): A general category of decay that includes the type caused by this fungus.

Synonyms

• There is no common, non-scientific synonym for this specific organism. In technical contexts, its Latin binomial name ( or similar, depending on precise species) is used.

Học thuật

Noun

1. fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes

Từ đồng nghĩa

• leak fungus
• Rhizopus stolonifer