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Biotic stress

Index Biotic stress

Biotic stress is stress that occurs as a result of damage done to an organism by other living organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, beneficial and harmful insects, weeds, and cultivated or native plants. [1]

48 relations: Abiotic stress, Abscisic acid, Agricultural Research Service, Arabidopsis, Arabidopsis thaliana, Auxin, Bacteria, Biodiversity loss, Biotic component, Brown, Canker, Circulatory system, Coevolution, Crop yield, Diagnosis, Drought, Effector-triggered immunity, Food security, Fungus, Gibberellic acid, Great Famine (Ireland), Great French Wine Blight, Habitat, Horticulture, Hyperthermia, Immune system, Intensive farming, Jasmonic acid, List of beneficial weeds, Native plant, Oak, Oak wilt, Oomycete, Parasitism, Pathogenesis-related protein, Peptide hormone, Phylloxera, Phytophthora infestans, Plant health, Population dynamics, Reactive oxygen species, Salicylic acid, Soil salinity, Stress (biology), Striga hermonthica, Ubiquitin, Virus, Weed.

Abiotic stress

Abiotic stress is defined as the negative impact of non-living factors on the living organisms in a specific environment.

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Abscisic acid

Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone.

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Agricultural Research Service

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Arabidopsis

Arabidopsis (rockcress) is a genus in the family Brassicaceae.

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Arabidopsis thaliana

Arabidopsis thaliana, the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa.

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Auxin

Auxins (plural of auxin) are a class of plant hormones (or plant growth regulators) with some morphogen-like characteristics.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Biodiversity loss

Loss of biodiversity or biodiversity loss is the extinction of species (human, plant or animal) worldwide, and also the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat.

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Biotic component

Biotic components or biotic factors, can be described as any living component that affects another organism, or shapes the ecosystem.

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Brown

Brown is a composite color.

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Canker

Canker generally refers to many different plant diseases of such broadly similar symptoms as the appearance of small areas of dead tissue, which grow slowly, often over years.

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Circulatory system

The circulatory system, also called the cardiovascular system or the vascular system, is an organ system that permits blood to circulate and transport nutrients (such as amino acids and electrolytes), oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, and blood cells to and from the cells in the body to provide nourishment and help in fighting diseases, stabilize temperature and pH, and maintain homeostasis.

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Coevolution

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution.

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Crop yield

In agriculture, crop yield (also known as "agricultural output") refers to both the measure of the yield of a crop per unit area of land cultivation, and the seed generation of the plant itself (e.g. if three grains are harvested for each grain seeded, the resulting yield is 1:3).

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Diagnosis

Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.

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Drought

A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.

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Effector-triggered immunity

Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is a property of the innate immune system.

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Food security

Food security is a condition related to the availability of food supply, group of people such as (ethnicities, racial, cultural and religious groups) as well as individuals' access to it.

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Fungus

A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Gibberellic acid

This article is related to the chemical gibberelic acid.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.

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Great French Wine Blight

The Great French Wine Blight was a severe blight of the mid-19th century that destroyed many of the vineyards in France and laid waste the wine industry.

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Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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Hyperthermia

Hyperthermia is elevated body temperature due to failed thermoregulation that occurs when a body produces or absorbs more heat than it dissipates.

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Immune system

The immune system is a host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease.

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Intensive farming

Intensive farming involves various types of agriculture with higher levels of input and output per cubic unit of agricultural land area.

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Jasmonic acid

Jasmonic acid (JA) is an organic compound found in several plants including jasmine.

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List of beneficial weeds

This is a list of undomesticated or feral plants, generally considered weeds, yet having some positive effects or uses, often being ideal as companion plants in gardens.

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Native plant

Native plants are plants indigenous to a given area in geologic time.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Oak wilt

Oak wilt is a fungal disease affecting oak trees caused by the fungus Bretiziella fagacearum.

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Oomycete

Oomycota or oomycetes form a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms.

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Parasitism

In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Pathogenesis-related protein

Pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins are proteins produced in plants in the event of a pathogen attack.

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Peptide hormone

Peptide hormones or protein hormones are hormones whose molecules are peptides or proteins, respectively.

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Phylloxera

Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch 1855); family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); originally described in France as Phylloxera vastatrix; equated to the previously described Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, Phylloxera vitifoliae; commonly just called phylloxera (from φύλλον, leaf, and ξηρός, dry) is a pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.

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Phytophthora infestans

Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a microorganism which causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight.

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Plant health

Plant health is concerned with.

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Population dynamics

Population dynamics is the branch of life sciences that studies the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems, and the biological and environmental processes driving them (such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration).

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Reactive oxygen species

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are chemically reactive chemical species containing oxygen.

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Salicylic acid

Salicylic acid (from Latin salix, willow tree) is a lipophilic monohydroxybenzoic acid, a type of phenolic acid, and a beta hydroxy acid (BHA).

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Soil salinity

Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization.

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Stress (biology)

Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.

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Striga hermonthica

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as purple witchweed or giant witchweed, is a hemiparasitic plant that belongs to the family Orobanchaceae.

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Ubiquitin

Ubiquitin is a small (8.5 kDa) regulatory protein found in most tissues of eukaryotic organisms, i.e. it occurs ''ubiquitously''.

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Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms.

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Weed

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_stress

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