Arborjet > Diseases > Anthracnose. Anthracnose (leaf blight) is a fungus that winters on twig tissue on the tree. In the spring, spores are transported to new buds and shoots. The disease is enhanced by cool, wet conditions. Infected leaves develop tan to reddish brown lesions that extend along the veins of the leaf.
These tables give the total number of chromosomes (including sex chromosomes) in a cell nucleus. For example, human cells are diploid and have 22 different types of autosome, each present as two copies, and two sex chromosomes. This gives 46 chromosomes in total.
1 In a human egg or sperm, there are 23 chromosomes, one of which is an X or Y. 2  The number of chromosomes is reduced from 46 to 23 during the process of meiosis. 3  Fertilization of the egg by the sperm restores the diploid number of 46 chromosomes. All cells in a higher eukaryote (like us) are diploid Â­ EXCEPT ...for the germ cells Â­ eggs and sperm. 2  Germ cells have only half the number of chromosomes as a diploid cell Â­ one of each pair-and are termed haploid (n) .