Oidium Definition

Oidium Sentence Examples

• The vine has been attacked by the Oidium Tuckeri, the Phylloxera vastatrix and the Peronospora viticola, which in rapid succession wrought great havoc in Italian vineyards.

• The vine-growers were at their wits' end to account for this new plague, which threatened to be even more costly than the oidium.

• Whether a spore results from the sexual union of two similar gametes (zygospore) or from the fertilization of an egg-cell by the protoplasm of a male organ (oospore); or is developed asexually as a motile (zoospore) or a quiescent body cut off from a hypha (conidium) or developed along its course (oidium or chlamydospore), or in its protoplasm (endospore), are matters of importance which have their uses in the classification and terminology of spores, though in many respects they are largely of academic interest.

• Oidium or mildew is only second in importance to the phylloxera.

• The Alto Douro has from time to time been sadly ravaged by the oidium and phylloxera.