A decade ago, the tequila industry was pummelled by plant diseases. Rex Dalton meets the scientists working to keep the blue agave diverse enough to survive.
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Dalton, R. Saving the agave. Nature 438, 1070–1071 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4381070a
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