In warm, wet conditions, a whitish mucoid bacterial ooze may exude from infected shoots, petioles, cankered bark and infected fruit and blossoms. |
Many infections can occur on a single stem producing a severely cankered stem and a stunted plant. |
Spring shoot growth on diseased canes is weak and stunted above the cankered area. |
Pruning out diseased and cankered limbs and dead wood during the dormant season is an important practice to reduce the inoculum sources. |
I mean, you know, irony's funny and all, but if all you do is make fun of other things, you get this kind of cankered, empty feeling. |
I'm a 37-year-old graduate student who's having the usual dating difficulties common among those of us who are old and grey and cankered. |