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soil-borne

soil-borne

4.2
Germs carried or growing in soil that cause plant disease
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : transmitido por el suelo
  • Tom discovered that the soil-borne fungus was harming his tomato plants.
  • soil-borne diseases

Those are bacteria and fungi that breed root rot as well as a lot of soil borne funguses and bacterias.

Examples

  • To prevent soil-borne infections, it's essential to rotate crops every season.

  • And MSG is an umami-contributing flavor enhancer and does nothing to prevent illness from soil-borne anaerobes or extend shelf life.

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  • Things like soil borne insects and diseases.

  • And that's because the the soil borne funguses actually are, are native to your soil.

  • Bradyrhizobium, Rhizobium, and other organisms involved in the biological control of soil-borne diseases.

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  • Alteration of the disturbance regime to plants by soil-borne pathogens should therefore have a strong effect on ecosystem processes.

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  • They include increased water-holding capacity of soil, less erosion, more nutrients available to crops, and suppression of soil-borne diseases.

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  • Rhizophagous animals and soil-borne pathogens can strongly modify the disturbance regime to which the vegetation is subjected (Vitousek 1990).

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  • The farmers applied treatment to their crops to protect against soil-borne diseases.

Surface Forms

soil-borne positive

Morphology

soil-borne = soil + borne (transparent) = soil + borne

Clear compound meaning 'carried or originating in soil' formed by 'soil' + '-borne', a productive pattern (e.g., 'airborne', 'dust-borne').

Etymology

The word soil-borne breaks into soil ('earth' or 'dirt') and borne ('carried', like the verb bear which means 'to carry'). So soil-borne means 'carried in the soil', and it describes diseases or germs that come from the dirt.