| 词条 | Witch's broom |
| 释义 |
Witch's broom or witches' broom is a deformity in a woody plant, typically a tree, where the natural structure of the plant is changed. A dense mass of shoots grows from a single point, with the resulting structure resembling a broom or a bird's nest. It is sometimes caused by pathogens. Witch-broom disease caused by phytoplasmas is economically important in a number of crop plants, including the cocoa tree Theobroma cacao,[1]jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)[2] and the timber tree Melia azedarach.[3]CausesWitch's broom can be caused by cytokinin, a phytohormone, interfering with an auxin-regulated bud. In normal plant function, an auxin would keep the secondary, tertiary, and so on tips from overgrowing, but cytokinin can sometimes interfere with this control, causing these apices to grow into witch's brooms. Witch's broom may be caused by many different types of organisms, including fungi, oomycetes, insects, mistletoe, dwarf mistletoes, mites, nematodes, phytoplasmas, or viruses.[4][5] The broom growths may last for many years, typically for the life of the host plant. Human activity is sometimes behind the introduction of these organisms, for example, by failing to observe hygienic practice and thereby infecting the tree with the causative organism, or by pruning a tree improperly, and thereby weakening it.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} UsesWitches' brooms occasionally result in desirable changes. Some cultivars of trees, such as Picea orientalis 'Tom Thumb Gold', were discovered as witch's brooms. If twigs of witches' brooms are grafted onto normal rootstocks, freak trees result, showing that the attacking organism has changed the inherited growth pattern of the twigs.[4] Witches' brooms are of wide ecological importance. They generally tend to be inhabited by a wide variety of organisms apart from the causative organisms. Some of the invading organisms, such as some species of moths, are specific to particular types of witches' brooms, relying on them for food and shelter for their larvae. Various larger animals nest in them, including the northern flying squirrel.[6] See also
References1. ^{{cite journal|author1=Purdy, L.H. |author2=Schmidt, R.A. |year=1996|title=Status Of Cacao Witches' Broom: Biology, Epidemiology, and Management|journal=Annual Review of Phytopathology|volume=34|issue=1|pages=573–594|doi=10.1146/annurev.phyto.34.1.573|pmid=15012557 }} 2. ^{{cite journal|url=http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-GSKK200102012.htm|title=Advances in Tissue Culture and Eliminating of the Pathogeny of Witch Broom Disease(MLO) of Chinese Jujube|year=2001|author1=Li Yun |author2=Wang Yu |author3=Tian Yanting |author4=Sun Haoyuan |last-author-amp=yes }} 3. ^{{cite journal|author1=Gomez, G.G. |author2=Conci, L.R. |author3=Ducasse, D.A. |author4=Nome, S.F. |year=1996|title=Purification of the Phytoplasma Associated with China-tree (Melia azedarach L.) Decline and the Production of a Polyclonal Antiserum for its Detection|journal=Journal of Phytopathology|volume=144|issue=9–10|pages=473–477|doi=10.1111/j.1439-0434.1996.tb00327.x}} 4. ^1 Book of the British Countryside. Pub. London : Drive Publications, (1973). p. 519. 5. ^https://plantvillage.psu.edu/topics/symptoms/infos 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/furbear/nfsquirl.php |title=Home Page, Alaska Department of Fish and Game |publisher=Adfg.state.ak.us |date=2012-01-01 |accessdate=2012-05-26}} External links{{commonscat-inline|Witch's broom}}
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