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Definition of Crown gall
1. Noun. A bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground.
Definition of Crown gall
1. Noun. A disease of plants caused by infection of soil bacteria of the genus ''Agrobacterium '' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Crown gall
1. Gall or tumour, found in many dicotyledonous plants, caused by the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crown Gall
Literary usage of Crown gall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE THE VARIETAL RELATIONS OF crown gall THE disease
... There have been recognized a hard and a soft form of crown gall and the ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"IS resistant to crown-gall 18,19-20.28 tested for resistance to crown-gall in
... 15-20 effect of crown-gall 12 treatment to prevent freezing, ..."
3. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"G. The Cross Inoculation of Fruit Trees and Shrubs with crown gall. ... G.
The Wrapping of Apple Grafts and its Relation to crown gall Disease. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The author believes that crown gall is a disease of plants which in its development
and growth bears striking similarity to human cancer. ..."
5. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1910)
"agreeing with what was said by the gentlemen from Colorado. I have been studying
this problem for a good many years myself in Iowa. We have crown gall in a ..."
6. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"Erw. Smith and Townsend crown gall is one of the most recent plant diseases to
be traced to bacterial origin. Its occurrence is so common in nursery stock ..."
7. An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants by Erwin Frink Smith (1920)
"PAGE ii'Jl. Inoculated crown gall on sugar beets, showing necrosis 422 3'2'2.
Natural crown gall on willow limbs—from South Africa 423 323. ..."
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