For a more extensive glossary of plant pathological terms go to the online glossary of technical terms in plant pathology

A fraction of a sample with a specific volume. Example: The 20 ml sample was divided into four 5 ml aliquots

The ability of a particular strain or group of bacteria to prevent an antibiotic from adversely affecting the bacteria

The process of a cell committing suicide

A plant disease caused by infection of the plant by bacteria

The use of computer science, statistics, and information science to gain new understanding of biological systems. Bioinformatics is especially useful for the organization and interpretation of genome [..]

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. This is a program that allows users to rapidly search protein and nucleotide databases for regions similar to your sequence of interest.

A disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, delerium, swollen lymph nodes and black spots on the skin

The process by which two bacteria in close proximity exchange a piece of DNA through a hollow tube-like structure called a PILUS. This is also called bacterial mating

DNA Data Bank of Japan. A public genetic sequence database is maintained at this site