Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A disease of cabbage and related plants, caused by a parasitic protist (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by knobby or club-shaped swellings on the roots and wilting, yellowing, and stunted growth of aboveground parts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A disease of the roots of cabbage, consisting of large swellings, caused by the myxomycetous fungus Plasmodiophora Brassicæ.

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  • noun A common disease of cabbages, radishes, turnips, and other plants of the Cruciferae, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which galls form on latent roots, rendering them clublike.
  • noun A root thus affected.

Etymologies

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club +‎ root

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Examples

  • However, in the case of a fungi such as clubroot, which can live on in the soil, it is more appropriate to plant a rotation of noncrucifer crops for several seasons.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • Some diseases only affect certain crop families, for example tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) only occurs in solanaceous crops (tomato, pepper, eggplant, potato, tomatillo), and the fungus causing clubroot only on crucifers

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • For example, if clubroot fungi (which only affect members of the crucifer family) infest cabbage growing in one garden bed, kale planted in that bed the following year will probably also be affected.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • Evaluation of radish cultivars for resistance to clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae) Race 6, for mid-western United States.

    Chapter 27 1987

  • A few slime molds do cause disease in plants, such as cabbage clubroot disease, which is caused by

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A few slime molds do cause disease in plants, such as cabbage clubroot disease, which is caused by

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A few slime molds do cause disease in plants, such as cabbage clubroot disease, which is caused by

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A few slime molds do cause disease in plants, such as cabbage clubroot disease, which is caused by

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A few slime molds do cause disease in plants, such as cabbage clubroot disease, which is caused by

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  • They are responsible for some diseases of eelgrass and marine animals parasites that grow as naked protoplasms in plants, algae, fungi, and other small organisms and are responsible for certain diseases in plants such as cabbage clubroot disease

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