SciShow: 3 Ridiculous Ways Plants Get Sick

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Content of the Lesson: Plants can get sick, but since they don’t walk around sneezing on each other, the things that infect them need some very weird strategies to spread. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Crown gall http://archive.bio.ed.ac.uk/jdeacon/microbes/crown.htm https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHYTO-12-14-0380-RVW Christie & Gordon, 2015: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292801/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2014.00730/full Mummy Berry https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/disandpath/fungalasco/pdlessons/Pages/MummyBerry.aspx https://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/host-disease/blueberry-vaccinium-corymbosum-mummy-berry Cedar-apple rust https://extension.umn.edu/plant-diseases/cedar-apple-rust http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/factsheets/cedarapplerust.pdf http://www.fungusfactfriday.com/087-gymnosporangium-juniperi-virginianae/ ------ Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Severe_fire_blight_infection_on_apples.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gurkenmosaikvirus.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/leaves-of-a-blackberry-bush-with-the-plant-pathogen-kuehneola-uredines-gm903257600-249124503 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eriophyes_tilae_tilae_close_up.JPG https://tinyurl.com/s7yg4g6 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crown_Gall_of_Sunflower.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/grafting-mango-tree-gm502965162-82244253 https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/34744024873/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conjugation.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agrobacterium-tumefaciens.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/grafting-fruit-tree-grafted-place-by-grafting-tape-gm1145248827-308210039 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blueberry-flowers-covered-in-dew-gm1154446873-313949019 https://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/host-disease/blueberry-vaccinium-corymbosum-mummy-berry https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-cedar-needles-and-cones-gm470509802-62186828 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-apple-growing-on-tree-gm471740467-26286172 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_apple_rust_heavily_infected_leaf_underside.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_apple_rust_showing_stomata.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae_gall.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cedar-apple-rust-gall-gm675814474-124004141 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae_gall_sprouting.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ill-woman-sneezing-at-home-gm1096061316-294277014 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cedar-apple-rust-gall-fungus-gm624750080-109875283


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