A particularly destructive disease is caused by fungi that decay the wood of trees.
Some patients, however, present with and succumb to locally destructive disease.
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a destructive disease of the world's wheat-growing areas.
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici (FORL) is a destructive disease on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill).
Alternaria blight is a major and destructive disease of potato worldwide.
"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times.
Brown Vialetto Van Laere syndrome was the name put to this neurally destructive disease, of which there have been only 74 cases worldwide in 100 years.
Rice blast is the most destructive disease of rice, which serves as a staple food source for about one-half of the world's population2,3.
Currants and gooseberries are the chief agencies in the spread of the white-pine blister rust, a destructive disease of the five-leaved pines in Europe and America.
Phytophthora blight has been the most destructive disease of cucurbit crops on Long Island, and the most challenging disease to manage effectively.
Among the biotic constraints, the emerging faba bean gall disease, caused by Olpidium viciae, is the major and most destructive disease wherever faba bean is grown.
