Plant health includes the protection of plants, as well as scientific and regulatory frameworks for controlling plant pests or pathogens.
Plant health is concerned with:
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Ecosystem health with a special focus on
plants
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars f ...
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Tree health
*The control of
plant pests
*The control of
plant pathology
Plant pathology or phytopathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Plant pathology involves the study of pathogen identification, disease ...
See also
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Plant disease forecasting, predicting the occurrence or change in severity of plant diseases
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) based in Riverdale Park, Maryland, Riverdale, Maryland responsible for protecting animal health, animal welfare, and plant h ...
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American Phytopathological Society
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Plant Protection and Quarantine
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Pest risk analysis
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Global Plant Clinic
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Medicinal plants
Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against h ...
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Botany
Ecology