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The problem of the resistance of plants to fungal or bacterial attack is of great practical importance. If the nature of resistance of a particular plant to a particular pathogen is understood, the plant breeder may be better able to combine the factors for resistance to disease with other desirable characters and so produce a resistant variety of higher quality. This, when it can be done, is usually the most satisfactory method of controlling disease.
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TOLBA, M., SALEH, A. Correlation between pH-Value of Tomato Tissue and its Susceptibility to Attack by Two Fusaria . Nature 173, 87 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173087a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/173087a0
