Dieback of shower tree, resulting from having been planted too deep. |
 Dieback of a kava plant (Piper methysticum), the penultimate symptom of kava dieback disease, caused by infection of the plant by the plant-pathogenic virus, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). |
 Naupaka dieback disease in Hawaii, associated with infection by the plant-pahtoegnic fungus, Verticllium dahliae. |
 Dieback and decline of a stand of Acacia koa in Hawaii, caused by a disease known as koa wilt, associated with the plant-pathoegnic fungus Fusarium oxysporum fp. sp. koae. |
 Dieback of turf at a golf course in Hawaii as a result of attack by frit flies (any of several small flies of the family Chloropidae, especially Oscinella frit, having larvae that are destructive to grasses and cereal plants). |
Dieback is progressive death of shoots, leaves, or roots, beginning at the tips.
Dieback is a type of wilt disease that indicates a problem with water relations, either the uptake of water by roots from soil or from the or transport of water within the plant's vascular system.