leaf blight

collocation in English

meaningsofleafandblight

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leaf
noun[C]
uk
/liːf/us
/liːf/
one of the flat, usually green parts of a plant that are joined at one end to the stem ...
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blight
noun
uk
/blaɪt/us
/blaɪt/
a disease that damages and ...
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(Definition ofleafandblightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even ifleafblightstrikes again, it is not likely to strike the maize crop year after year throughout the transitional period of six years.
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For example, nitrogen fertilizers are typically applied to carrot crops to improve yields and reduceleafblight.
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Applications of foliar fungicides can be used to controlleafblight.
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Often, plants that have wilt symptoms will also haveleafblightsymptoms.
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The disease manifests in two phases: seedling wilt, when the growing point dies; andleafblight, white lesions on the leaves of older plants.
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Northern cornleafblightoften occurs when southern cornleafblightis present, and lesions distinguish between the two.
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Traditional treatments, such as the applications of copper compounds or antibiotics, are largely ineffective in the control of bacterialleafblight.
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Although the fungus infects leaves early in the growing season,leafblightsymptoms are most apparent on older leaves near or after harvest.
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Foliarleafblightor spot blotch is a major biotic stress whereas other stresses include heat and drought.
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Another form of cultural control used to limit southern cornleafblightis crop rotation with non-host crops.
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In years highly favorable for disease development,leafblightcan cause defoliation and, in some cases, death of plants.
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The disease is also known as bacterial wilt or bacterialleafblightand has shown to be quite problematic in sweet corn in the gram negative state of bacterium.
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It is the causal pathogen for grey leaf spot in tomatoes andleafblightin alliums and cotton, though a wide range of additional species can serve as hosts.
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Stewarts wilt has two phases of symptoms: the wilt phase and theleafblightphase.
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