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Facts

Also Known As	decay

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Shelf fungus (Polyporus betulinus), which causes decay of birch trees

botrytis blight

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Topics

seed rot root rot wood rot soft rot red rot Plant disease Basal rot Blight blister rust Scab Canker Sunscald Wilt Bunt Dutch elm disease Rice bacterial blight

Key People

Lewis Ralph Jones, c. 1940

Lewis Ralph Jones

American botanist