clubroot

American  

[kluhb-root, -root] / ˈklʌbˌrut, -ˌrʊt /

noun

1. Plant Pathology.  a disease of cabbage and other cruciferous plants, characterized by enlarged, malformed roots, root, caused by a slime mold, Plasmodiophora brassicae.

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Etymology

Origin of clubroot

First recorded in 1840–50; club + root ¹

Example Sentences

Farmer Bill Craddock acknowledged he plants canola with only a one-year break in Manitoba, where clubroot first appeared in 2013.

From Reuters

Clubroot first hit Western Canada’s canola in 2003 but dates back centuries in Europe.

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“The first generations of a canola-by-rutabaga cross will look pretty wild,” said Jed Christianson, trait lead at Monsanto’s Winnipeg office, where some 30 breeders and technicians are involved in the search for clubroot solutions.

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It’s an early stage of a high-stakes effort to control the biggest threat to Canada’s C$27-billion canola industry - a crop disease called clubroot that presents unique challenges for Monsanto, along with rival seed developers DowDuPont and Bayer AG.

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Worse, clubroot spores make themselves at home in the soil for up to 20 years, unlike most crop diseases that damage harvests for a single season.

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