foot rot


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contagious degenerative infection of the feet of hoofed animals (especially cattle and sheep)

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plant disease in which the stem or trunk rots at the base

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Major diseases of the field were diarrhoea (80%), upper respiratory tract infection (15%) and rest were (5%) trauma, heat exhaustion, foot rot, arthropod/vector borne diseases.
Symptomatology: Bakanae disease of rice is also known as "foot rot" in India, "white stalk" in China, "man rice" in the Philippines and "bakanae-byo or elongation disease" in Japan.
Sarawak is one of the largest exporters of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) but the production of this crop is in the decline, because of the foot rot disease.
It contains genes (Yr17, Pch1, and others) that enable it to withstand attack by the stripe rust fungus, Puccina striiformis; Oculimacula yallundae, which causes straw breaker foot rot; and Blumeria graminis, the culprit behind powdery mildew.
As been shown in Table (1), all applied concentration of silicon treatment protected cucumber plants against Fusarium foot rot disease.
poultry producers have used cephalosporins very little since 2008, which is when the FDA first tried to restrict the drugs1 use in food animals.4 Today, cattle account for most veterinary prescriptions for antibiotics in this country, generally for treating pneumonia, foot rot, and mastitis, according to Gatz Riddell, a veterinarian and executive vice president of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
Under no circumstances should soil around the proposed planting site be removed to form a shallow basin for watering to do so almost guarantees that the young grapefruit tree will contract foot rot and die before its fifth year.
The department conducted this awareness campaign so that they could tell them on how to isolate the crops from foot rot bacteria, in order to produce rich yield all around the year.
Someone else having to deal with foot rot, they replied (it stinks).
"In fact about 300,000 cattle are killed each year with farmyard diseases such as mastitis and foot rot, as well as thousands of bull calves considered not commercially viable.
Diseases such as foot rot, diarrhea and smallpox, have been spreading since the start of the Afghan New Year, on March 21, farmers in the province say.
Then I went to skate this contest in Atlanta and I had the foot rot. Skated all day and by the end of the contest the bottom of my foot peeled off.
Researchers Professor Laura Green and Dr Jasmeet Kaler investigated why the disease foot rot, which causes sheep to limp, is so common even though it's cheap and quick to treat.
Foot rot occurs when bacteria found in soil or manure invade the foot through a break in the skin (usually between the toes or at the heel).