PLANT DISEASES

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Across
  1. 2. A group of tiny organisms whose size is between that of the viruses and bacteria
  2. 3. Composed of growing structure of delicate threadlike filaments called hyphae
  3. 5. An organism which depends wholly or partly on another living organism for its food
  4. 7. The capacity of a pathogen to cause disease
  5. 9. Fungicides that serve as foliage and fruit sprays to keep disease causing fungi from penetrating plants
  6. 10. Technically not considered to be living organism and referred as “infectious particles or entities”
Down
  1. 1. Fungicides that kill or inhibit fungi after they have penetrated the plants
  2. 4. Any disturbance brought about by a pathogen or an environmental factor which interferes with the growth and development of plants
  3. 6. Microscopic organism which obtains their food from decaying organic matter or living tissue
  4. 8. This occurs when a pathogen successfully enters a plant and grows, reproduces, and spreads within the plant