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Will Tomato Plants Stay Healthy or Succumb to Disease? Ask the Soil Microbiome (2 of 3)

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Will Tomato Plants Stay Healthy or Succumb to Disease? Ask the Soil Microbiome (2 of 3)

image: Healthy (left) and diseased (right) tomato seedlings. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the September 25th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z. Wei at Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Initial soil microbiome composition and functioning predetermine future plant health." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Ville-Petri Friman]


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