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Original post: Newswise - Drug and Drug Abuse Biologists Discover Particularly Dangerous Fungi That Affect Potatoes
Russian biologists have studied strains of the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani, which causes diseases in potatoes and other plants. Among them, three particularly dangerous strains to be not susceptible to the common fungicide pencycuron and can survive at high temperatures.