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Plant Pandemics & COVID
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COVID 19 has come as a bit of a shock to us, but in the world of plants, they’re nothing new.
Dr.Jon West of Rothamsted Research explains how research on one can inform the other, why Rothamsted is a great place to investigate diseases affecting oranges and how our experience of COVID should alert us to the importance of burgeoning diseases in plants.
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