Plant disease: Quick Facts

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Tomato leaves puckered and blistered by the tobacco mosaic virus.

Cysts or tiny nodes on soybean plant roots, containing eggs of nematodes.

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Understand how plants are infected by diseases through rainwater droplet splashing from leaf to leaf

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