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bacterial blight

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bacterial blight [bak′tir·ē·əl ′blīt]
(plant pathology)
Any blight disease of plants caused by bacteria, including common bacterial blight, halo blight, and fuscous blight.


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Unwrapping some of the mystery from how plants and bacteria communicate in this dance of immunity, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the bacterial signaling molecule that matches up with a specific receptor in rice plants to ward off a devastating disease known as bacterial blight of rice.
Wilting flowers and discolored stalks should be removed immediately as these are signs of either botrytis or possibly bacterial blight and you will want to protect the other flowers.
Then, within a decade, disaster struck when a bacterial blight killed the sponges, decimating the industry.
 
 
 
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