ring rot bacteria

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   causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc

   SynonymsPseudomonas solanacearum

   Broaderpseudomonad

Questions about ring rot bacteria

What does ring rot bacteria mean?

ring rot bacteria means "causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc".

What is another word for ring rot bacteria?

Close synonyms include Pseudomonas solanacearum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ring rot bacteria a common word?

ring rot bacteria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.