crop diseases
Agricultural pathogen infections
Crop diseases are illnesses that affect cultivated plants, caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, or other pathogens.
They can devastate harvests and threaten food security: Potato blight was the crop disease behind the Irish famine.
Farmers combat crop diseases through resistant varieties, pesticides, and crop rotation.
The term also covers damage from parasites and environmental stresses.
- root rotFungal underground plant disease
- damping-offFungal disease killing seedlings
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- smutsSoot particles or fungi
- chlorosisChlorophyll deficiency in plants
brown spot · viruses · blight · bacteria · stunting · nematodes · necrosis · withered · spotted · rot · fields · infestation · yellowing · harvest · spores · resistant · aphids · pesticide
crop diseasesplant health
Wellness of vegetation
disease resistance · bumper crops · bumper crop · good harvest
crop diseasesdisease control
Managing pathogen spread
disease prevention · fungicides · pesticides · disease management · disease resistance
crop diseasesinsect infestation
Harmful bug population explosion
weather damage · frost damage · hail damage · flood damage · nutrient deficiency