plant disease symptom where one or more individual stems or branches start to die at the tip, with the disease spreading down toward the base of the stem
{i} disease of plants characterized by gradual decay; dying of the outer portions of a plant caused by disease or due to weather damage; decay of part or all of the woody part of a plant
general name for a significant decline in tree health and numbers, especially native trees; caused by a variety of agents, including insect attack, disease, pollution and other human-induced changes in the environment
The progressive dying back, from the top downward, of leaves and branches and eventually often the whole plant In Western Australia, particularly applied to the effects of the root rot fungus Phytophthora cinnamomi