Healthy and Sick Seedlings (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Healthy and Sick Seedlings

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A healthy seedling of the tree Castilla elastica is on the left, while a dying seedling, attacked by a plant pathogen, is on the right. A study in the Journal of Ecology by University of Utah biologists shows that such tree diseases, while killing individual seedlings, can increase forest biodiversity.

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Erin Spear, University of Utah.

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