mosaic
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- noun
- /moʊˈzeɪɪk/
- Specialized
:
mosaico
- PHOTO (COLOR): Technician Catherine Corr compares a healthy tomato plant (left) to one infected by tobacco mosaic virus (right).
- mosaic virus
- mosaic disease
- tobacco mosaic
Examples
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One cultivar trait farmers prize most is disease resistance, especially against bean common mosaic virus and bean common mosaic necrosis virus.
Academic text (2003) -
Plant infections were discovered, such as the so-called mosaic disease that can ruin tobacco plantations on a large scale.
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And they found a link between one flavonoid and resistance to bean mosaic disease.
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All were infected with cucumber mosaic virus early in the 1995 growing season.
Academic text (1996) -
But if the tobacco plant contracts tobacco mosaic virus, that is the host that can then transmit that to the tomato plant.
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Most figs carry fig mosaic virus, which is thought to make them less productive.
Blog text (3) -
Provider also had resistance to the common bean mosaic virus and others, including the pod mottle virus, and to powdery mildew.
Academic text (1994) -
The cucumber plant showed symptoms of mosaic disease, with leaves that were mottled and shriveled.
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Farmers noticed the mosaic virus affecting their tomato crops, leading to reduced yields.
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The research focused on the impact of the mosaic virus on various crops, especially potatoes and tobacco.
Compounds
- Formal
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Religious rules God gave to the Israelites through Moses in the first five books of the Bible
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A large image that shows a wide area by joining many photos taken from the air
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A disease caused by a virus that makes potato leaves show pale and dark patches
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A disease caused by a virus that makes plant leaves show yellow patches, often in tobacco plants
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A virus that infects tobacco and other plants, making leaves show light and dark patches
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mosaic for the plant disease is a simple picture word: sick leaves get patches of different colors that look like a small-piece picture, so people called those patchy illnesses 'mosaic' diseases. That name links the leaf pattern to the original idea of a mosaic picture.