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Often plants have visible signs of disease like fluffy masses of mold. Diagnosing plant diseases ut institute of agriculture. These attacks not usually fatal, but monitoring your garden regularly makes you aware of a problem early enough to prevent major damage and nip it in the bud. Biotic diseases usually appear on random plants throughout a field and effect different plants with different levels of severity. The subsequent multiplication and blockage prevents.
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