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Search criteria
Plant diseases can be retrieved according to host plant, disease name and pathogen/cause. The Auto-Completer suggests possible matches for entries you typed in each fields. Multiple selection using comma and partial match options are available too.
- Perfect match: Completely consistent with...
- Prefix match: Starting with...
- Suffix match: Ending with...
- Partial match: Including...
Example 1: Search for plant disease its host starts with “rice” and disease name includes “leaf”.
Example 2: Search for plant disease its host starts with “cherry” and pathogen starts with “Nectria” or “Agrobacterium”.
Search result

- Total number of search results.
- You can download the result of your search as xls file up to 1000 items.
- The pager will appear when search result has more than 25 items. Pager is controllable by using the cursor keys and enter key.
- The essential data shown in tabular form. You can sort results in ascending order by clicking the column header.
- Detailed information will appear when you click the Disease name. If you want to open it in a new window[tab], please click while holding down the Shift[Ctrl] key or drag and drop the Disease name into the tab bar.
- †: Exotic plant disease reported by Japanese researcher.
- ††: Exotic plant disease presented to Japan in reviews or abstracts.
- †††: Exotic plant disease found in import quarantine inspection.
- ††††: Plant disease without name and/or adequate descriptions.
- The internal window shows detailed information. This window is movable by dragging the title bar.
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- Resize the internal window.