Fungal disease causing seedlings to rot at soil level and topple over.
The withering and demise of nascent plants due to the emergence of a stem wound at the level of the soil, which leads to their eventual collapse. This term appears to originate from cultivators, likely stemming from the humid and congested conditions experienced by seedlings confined in a container, thereby fostering the proliferation and assault of pathogenic organisms like Pythium spp. The passing away of seedlings due to affliction, prior to their emergence from the surface of the soil or any other growing medium, is known as pre-emergence damping off.