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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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Tobacco plants that died of root rot. The disease, which is probably caused by fungal pathogens, attacked the plants in their field plot in the Lytle Preserve, Utah, USA: plants wilted and died within only a few days. Treating infected plants is impossible. Other plant species in the field were unharmed.

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© Arne Weinhold, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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