symbiont-mediated occlusion of host xylem
The process in which an organism reduces the flow of fluid within the host xylem, the tissue in plants that carries water and nutrients up from the roots to the shoot and leaves. The host is defined as the larger of the organisms involved in a symbiotic interaction.
GO:0052111
symbiont-mediated disruption of host anatomical structure
is_a
occlusion by symbiont of host xylem
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