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dieback's Usage Examples:

On conifers in California, the pathogen causes a needle blight and dieback of young shoots of Douglas fir and coastal redwood.

On other native plants in California the symptoms are quite variable but are usually associated with leaf spotting and branch dieback.

The other problem affecting alders is crown dieback, which results in the tree dying from the top downwards.

This forest dieback or degradation could potentially contribute 10 to 100 Gt C to the atmosphere in the coming century.

In North America it also causes ramorum dieback or ramorum leaf blight on a range of woodland plants.

dieback symptoms was first described in Zaire in 1989 but the causal agent was not established.

The symptoms on Pieris were an aerial twig dieback (Fig.

A whole plant showing dieback was sent to CSL for diagnosis.

Drought is also thought to be a factor causing dieback in hedgerow trees, which are not included in the UK crown density survey.

dieback's Meaning':

a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches