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definition
The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions
Examples of dieback in a Sentence
Drought is also thought to be a factor causing dieback in hedgerow trees, which are not included in the UK crown density survey.
A whole plant showing dieback was sent to CSL for diagnosis.
In North America it also causes ramorum dieback or ramorum leaf blight on a range of woodland plants.
This forest dieback or degradation could potentially contribute 10 to 100 Gt C to the atmosphere in the coming century.
The other problem affecting alders is crown dieback, which results in the tree dying from the top downwards.
On other native plants in California the symptoms are quite variable but are usually associated with leaf spotting and branch dieback.
On conifers in California, the pathogen causes a needle blight and dieback of young shoots of Douglas fir and coastal redwood.