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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Mycosphaerellaceae — various fungi that cause leaf spot on crops.

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Examples

  • Spitz knows her tomatoes get a fungal disease called Septoria leaf spot every year.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2010

  • Several have resistance to diseases such as powdery mildew, leaf rust, net blotch, Septoria, scald, spot blotch, loose smut, barley yellow dwarf virus, and barley stripe mosaic virus.

    13. Other Cultivated Grains 1996

  • The main disease problems have been head diseases (Septoria, Helminthosporium, and scab), premature sprouting, and low test weight.

    7 Experiences Around the World 1989

  • Triticale has shown good adaptation to Brazil's acid soils and has demonstrated high resistance to mildew, leaf blotch (Septoria), stem rust, and leaf rust.

    7 Experiences Around the World 1989

  • However, as a precaution against possible future outbreaks, the breeders each year inoculate the triticales in their nurseries with rusts and blotches (Septoria spp.), using inoculum collected from triticale.

    7 Experiences Around the World 1989

  • Phoma oxalidicola, Septoria sp., and Cercospora oxalidiphila.

    Chapter 24 1987

  • Cercosporidium depressum, Septoria apii, and Gloeosporium sp.

    Chapter 8 1987

  • = = -- This disease, which is caused by a minute fungus (= Septoria apii =, Chester), is capable of inflicting serious damage to the Celery crop unless prompt measures are taken to exterminate it.

    The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

  • = Leaf spot = (_Septoria lycopersici_ Speg.) has been widely prevalent and injurious during recent years.

    Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato 1883

  • Spitz's other Septoria control method is to plant a few more plants than she thinks she needs.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2010

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