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      Scientific American January 1975

      A Mechanism of Disease Resistance in Plants

      What makes some plants susceptible to a disease and others resistant? Study of a fungus affecting sugarcane reveals a molecular mechanism that may function in many diseases that reduce the world's food crops

      • By Gary A. Strobel

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