«This is a fungus very well - adapted to colonizing senescent or
dead leaf tissue once conditions are right,» Leonard says.
Not exact matches
This condition causes both decreased yields and visible symptoms, such as distorted
leaves, abnormally colored
leaves,
dead tissue, mottled or mosaic
leaves or fruit, stunted plants, or curled
leaves.
In the first, decel step — short for decellularisation — organs from
dead donors are treated with detergents that strip off the soft
tissue,
leaving just the «scaffold» of the organ, built mainly from the inert protein collagen.
Collagen aids this turnover process, making sure that those
dead cells actually
leave the skins surface, allowing for the production of fresh new cells that can replace that old, damaged scar
tissue.
Symptoms include: holes in the bark; tunneling activity in
leaf tissue;
dead terminal growth on a plant; or the complete removal of strips of bark.