Can Plants Actually Develop Cancer?

[Bladibla]

Can plants get cancer? I don't see any reason for plants not to get cancer, but i have never heard of a speciies of plant really 'dying' from a cancer of any kind.

Any answers ppl?

 

[cronxeh]

Agrobacterium tumafacians and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid cause the plant to grow abnormally to death

http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/microbes/crown.htm

 

[Ouabache]

Agrobacterium tumafacians and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid cause the plant to grow abnormally to death

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is an good example of a bacterium that induces http://biology.kenyon.edu/Microbial_Biorealm/bacteria/proteobacteria/agrobacterium/Agrobacterium.htm

The second example is a stretch of the term cancer. 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is a synthetic herbicide. It mimics the activity of the plant hormone auxin (Indole Acetic Acid) causing the excessive cellular growth. If you inject yourself with an excess of substance that mimics our own hormones (e.g. somatotropin-like substance), would the excessive growth be called cancer?