Mottle

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Mottle

Mottle or mottling is the appearance of uneven spots on plants or the skin of animals. In plants, mottling usually consists of yellowish spots on plant

Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s, and is usually a symptom of disease or malnutrition. Many plant viruses cause this symptom, some examples being:

Mottling is sometimes used to describe uneven discolored patches on the skin of humans as a result of cutaneous ischemia

Ischemia

In medicine, ischemia is a restriction in blood supply, generally due to factors in the blood vessels, with resultant damage or dysfunction of tissue....
(lowered blood flow to the surfaces of the skin) or Herpes zoster

Herpes zoster

Herpes zoster , commonly known as shingles, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe....
infections.

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Mottle or mottling is the appearance of uneven spots on plants or the skin of animals. In plants, mottling usually consists of yellowish spots on plant

Plant

Tobacco vein mottling virus
Tobacco vein mottling virus

Tobacco vein mottling virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.External links*...
Bean pod mottle virus
Bean pod mottle virus

Bean pod mottle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Comoviridae.External links*...

Mottling is sometimes used to describe uneven discolored patches on the skin of humans as a result of cutaneous ischemia

Ischemia

Herpes zoster

Herpes zoster , commonly known as shingles, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe....
infections. In animals, mottling may be a sign of disease, but may also be a hereditary trait, such as seen with the champagne

Champagne gene

The champagne gene is a gene that occurs in horses that produces a golden equine coat color and other distinctive features. It is a dominance relationship dilution gene that will produce the same color whether the horse obtains one or two copies of the gene....
and leopard complex

Leopard complex

The leopard complex is a group of genetically-related Equine coat color in horses. These patterns range from progressive increases in interspersed white hair similar to Gray or Roan to distinctive, Dalmatian -like leopard spots on a white coat....
genes in horse

Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
s.

Mottles can also refer to discoloration in processed food, such as butter.

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