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Plant Leaves Reveal Clues About Crop Health

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Researchers are seeking to develop early-warning systems.

Michael A. Greenwood

For many farmers, the possibility of crop failure from diseases such as root rot is an ever-present worry. The anxiety is compounded by the fact that, by the time corn, potatoes, cotton and other mainstay crops start to exhibit the tell-tale symptoms indicating that something is wrong, it may be too late to do anything about it. Investigators at Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Lubbock, part of the Texas A&M University system, are looking for a way to provide farmers with a timely and relatively inexpensive detection method that could allow crops to be saved before...Read full article

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    Published: April 2008
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