Plantlet The Blogging Platform of Department of Botany, University of Dhaka
This series includes the difference tables between
- Localized fungicide and Systematic fungicide
- Localized infection and Systematic infection
- Soil borne fungi and Seed borne fungi
- Eradication and Crop rotation
- Obligate parasite and Facultative parasite
- Plant quarantine and Crop rotation
- Nature culture medium and Synthetic culture medium
- Primary inoculum and Secondary inoculum
- Infection and Invasion
- Pathogenesis and Pathogenicity
- Symptom and Syndrome
Differences on diseases
- Stem rust of wheat and Leaf smut of wheat
- Wilt disease and Damping off disease
- Blight disease and Blast disease
- Penetration and Parasitism
- Powdery mildew and Rust
| Localized fungicide | Systematic fungicide |
| It is protective in nature. | It is therapeutic in nature. |
| Effective only in the plant area where it is applied. | Absorbed and systematically translocated by plants. |
| They are externally functioning. | They are internally functioning. |
| Restricted to a particular area. | Involves the whole plant. |
| It is an older type of fungicide. | It is not as old as protectants. |
| E.g. Copper fungicide and Bordeaux mixture. | E.g. Carboxin. |
| Localized infection | Systematic infection |
| Localized infection is one that affects only parts of the body such as stem, leaf, root etc. | Systematic infection is one that affects the entire body. |
| Protective in nature. | Therapeutic in nature. |
| They are externally functioning. | They are internally functioning. |
| In this case the pathogen is limited in the sight of infection. | In this case the pathogen is carried to other part of the host. |
| Example: Tikka disease of ground nut. | Example: Rust, smut etc. |
| Soil borne fungi | Seed borne fungi |
| Associated with soil. | Associated with seed externally or internally. |
| Dormant structure such as thickened hyphae and sclerotia are present. | Dormant mycelium is present under seed coat or in the embryo (internal seed borne fungi). |
| Dormant spores (conidia, chlamydospore, oospore etc) are present in the soil. | Dormant spores are present on seed coat (external seed borne fungi). |
| Depending on soil pH, moisture or other microorganisms of soil. | Are not dependent on these. |
| E.g. Fusarium, Pythium and Rhizoctonia sp. etc. | E.g. Diplodia pinea, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Sirococcus conigenus etc. |
| Eradication | Crop rotation |
| Eradication is the reduction of an infectious diseases prevalence in the global host population to zero. | Crop rotation is the practise of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. |
| It works against both soil and seed borne fungi. | It works against soil borne pathogen. |
| It does not help in reducing soil erosion and also does not increase soil fertility and crop yield. | It helps in reducing soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop yield. |
| It does not increase diversity. | It helps to increase diversity. |
| Successfully eradicated two diseases: Human smallpox, rinder pest. | This method is followed for many crops such as legumes , root vegetables, leafy green vegetables etc. |
| Inocula | Inoculation |
| Any part of the pathogen that can cause infection. | Inoculation is the coming in contact of a pathogen with a plant. |
| Inocula is the part of organism or the whole cell of organism. | Inoculation is the process proceed by inocula. |
| Inocula causes the disease in the host cell. | Inoculation is one of the methods of the stages of the disease cycle. |
Inocula can be of two types –
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There are two steps involves in the inoculation process –
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| Obligate parasite | Facultative parasite |
| They can’t complete their life cycle without the presence of host cell. | They can complete their life cycle independent of their host. |
| They do not kill host tissue. | They kill host tissue that they invade. |
| They are host specific. | They are not host specific. |
| They don’t secrete toxic substances on host cell. | They can secrete toxic substances to their host. |
| They are comparatively advanced from evolutionary point of view. | They are primitive form evolutionary point of view. |
| E.g. Puccinia graminis-tritici, Ustilago hordei, Erysiphe sp. | Example: Cercospora, Alternaria, Colletotrichum, Macrophomina etc. |
| Plant quarantine | Crop rotation |
| Plant quarantine includes the regulations of the movement of living plant or plant products between politically defined territories. | Crop rotation is the practise of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. |
| It is not as old as crop rotation. | It is one of the most oldest methods. |
| It is one kind of regulatory method of controlling plant diseases. | It is one kind of cultural method of controlling plant diseases. |
| It follows some strict rules and regulations. | This method have no specific rules and regulations. |
| Three important aspects of crop rotations are: 1. Inspection 2. Certificatin 3. Embargo. |
Three important aspects of crop rotation are: 1. Reducing soil erosion. 2. Augmenting soil fertility. 3. Increasing soil diversity. |
| Natural culture medium | Synthetic culture medium |
| Natural media are composed of chemically undefined compounds. | Synthetic media are composed of chemically defined compounds. |
| It consists solely of a naturally occurring biological fluids. | Synthetic media are prepared by adding nutrients (both organic and inorganic). |
| The chemical composition of a natural medium is not properly known. | The chemical composition of a synthetic medium is completely known. |
| It is less expensive. | It is more expensive. |
| The reproducibility rate, in case of natural media is poor or not satisfactory. | The reproducibility rate is comparatively high. |
| It can be of three types: 1. Biological fluid containing media. 2. Tissue extracts controlling media. 3. Clot media. |
It can be of four types: 1. Serum containing media. 2. Serum free media. 3. Chemically defined media. 4. Protein free media. |
| Prepared for most common routine test. | Prepared for special study. |
| Example: Vegetable extract, fluid juice. | Example: Peptone martite agar medium. |
| Primary inoculum | Secondary inoculum |
| An inoculum that survives dormant in the winter or summer and causes the original infection in the spring or autumn is called primary inoculum. | An inoculum produced from primary infection is called secondary inoculum. |
| It develops from the perenating organ or comes from the neighbouring field. | It develops after the functioning of primary inoculation. |
| Primary inoculum causes primary infection. | Secondary inoculum causes secondary infection. |
| Primary inoculum starts the diseases. | Secondary inoculum spreads the disease. |
| Example: Overwintering or oversummering pathogen or its spores that cause primary infection.
In Puccinia, the urediospore is the primary inoculum. |
Example: Inoculum produced by infection take place during the same growing season.
In Puccinia, aeciospore is the secondary inoculum. |
| Infection | Invasion |
| Infection is the process by which pathogen establish contact with the susceptible cells and tissues of the host and procure nutrients from it. | Spreading of the pathogen into the host tissue is known as invasion. |
| Infection initiates invasion. | Invasion is the process that starts after infection. |
| Types of infection regulate invasion process. | It is a substage of infection. |
Infection can be of two types:
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Invasion can be localized or systematic. |
| Example: The contact of Phytophthora infestans with Potato leaf. | Example: The attack of Malaria parasite from red blood cell to liver. |
| Pathogenesis | Pathogenicity |
| Manner of development of a disease. | The ability of microbe to cause disease. |
| It describe the events leading to certain disease. | It describes the ability of pathogen responsible for certain disease. |
It depends on
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It depends on
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| The term is often used to describe the state of combined effects of disease development. | This term is often used to describe or compare species. |
| Example: By the series of events bacteria cause infection is called bacterial pathogenesis. | Example: Measles, Chickenpox has high pathogenicity. Polio, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis A has low pathogenicity. |
| Symptom | Syndrome |
| Particular subjective complaint noted by the person with a certain disorder. | A collection of clinical signs, symptoms and data. |
| Symptom actually indicates an effect of an illness. | Syndrome is a group of symptoms that all happen at the same time that indicate a specific cause. |
| It refers to an observable behavior or state. | The next higher level of analysis. |
| In pathology symptom serves as an indication of particular disease, a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies that particular disease. | In pathology syndrome is characterized as particular illness that is the outcome of many certain symptom. |
| Example: Pale yellow leaf spots is one symptom of powdery mildew. | Example: The signs of Down syndrome are a large tongue, a small chin, a flat nose. |
Differences on diseases
- Stem rust of wheat and Leaf smut of wheat
- Wilt disease and Damping off disease
- Blight disease and Blast disease
- Penetration and Parasitism
- Powdery mildew and Rust
See the characteristics of the disease and make differences accordingly.
| Stem rust of wheat | Leaf smut of wheat |
| Causal agent: Puccinia graminis- tritici. | Causal agent: Ustilago tritici |
| Infection occur on stem and damages it. | Infection occurs in the whole grain of the ear and the grains are transformed into a powdery grain. |
| They form lesions in the form of pustules on stems, usually rusty in color. | They form black dusty spore masses that resemble soot or smut in the ear. |
| Disease is caused by teleutospore/ teliospores. | Disease is caused by chlamydospores. |
| Each teliospore has long stalk and two terminal cells. | Spores are spherical to oval in shape. |
| Wilt disease | Damping off disease |
| A wilt disease is any number of diseases that affect the vascular system of plants. | Damping off is a horticultural disease or condition, caused by several different pathogens. |
| Usually it is a secondary symptom in which leaces or shoots lose their turgidity and droop. | The rapid death and collapse of very young seedlings in the seed bed or field. |
| Pathogens that cause wilting diseases invade the vascular vessels and cause the xylem to fail to transport water to the foliage, thus causing wilting of stems and leaves. | In this case the pathogen kill or weaken seeds or seedlings before or after they germinate. For this disease destruction of seedlings near the soil lini occurs. |
| Causal agent: Fusarium oxysporum, Bretziella fagacearum etc. | Causal agent: Alternaria, Phyllosticta, Pythium etc. |
| Host: Musa sp., Capsicum sp etc | Host: Zea mays, Pinus elliottii etc. |
| Blight disease | Blast disease |
| Blight, any of various plant diseases whose symptoms include sudden and severe yellowing, browning, spotting, withering, or dying of leaves, flowers, fruit, stems, or the entire plant. | Blast disease, also known as rice rotten neck and is the most damaging of all the fungal diseases in Southern Africa. |
| Causal agent: Rhizoctina solani – Sheath blight of rice. | Causal agent: Pyricularia oryzae – blast disease of rice. |
| Causal agent generally attack the shoots and other young, rapidly growing tissues of a plant. | Main infection occur in leaves, spindle shaped infection with a brown spot. |
| Mycelia present , the mycelium is most active. | Condiophore and conidia present. Conidia hyaline. |
| Penetration | Parasitism |
| The initial process of entrance of the pathogen into the host tissue is known as penetration. | Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life |
| It is the 1st step in the contact of the inoculum with the host. | It is the term used to describe established relationship between host and pathogen. |
There are two types of penetration depending upon the entry of the pathogen –
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There are different types of parasitism –
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| Through penetration parasite establishes certain type of parasitism. | To establish parasitism it is not always require penetration. |
| Powdery mildew | Rust |
| White powdery bloom on the plant surface. | Early on, look for white, slightly raised spots on the undersides of leaves and on the stems. After a short period of time, these spots become covered with reddish-orange spore masses. Later, leaf postules may turn yellow-green and eventually black. |
| Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. | There are more than 5,000 known species of rust on plants. Common rust (Phragmidium spp.) is a fungal disease that attacks roses, hollyhocks, snapdragons, daylilies, beans, tomatoes and lawns. |
| Powdery mildew grows well in environments with high humidity and moderate temperatures. Greenhouses provide an ideal moist, temperate environment for the spread of the disease. | Rust diseases are favored by 4 to 8 hours of low light intensity, warm temperatures and moisture — humidity, dew or rain — followed by 8 to 16 hours of high light intensity, high temperatures and slow drying of leaf surfaces. |
| The pathogen can be controlled using chemical methods, bio organic methods, and genetic resistance. | Copper sprays or Sulfur powders ( chemical method ), organic fertilizer can be used to control disease. Crop rotation can be of great help. |
References & Other Links
- Wilt disease from Wikipedia.
- Damping off from Wikipedia.
- Parasitism from Wikipedia.
- Rust from Planet Natural Research Center.
- Powdery mildew from Wikipedia.
Revised by
- Somudro Mahbub Nasir on 8 July, 2021
There are some differences you didn’t give here.If it is added here, it will be very beneficial for the students who need it.
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