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Chapter Twelve
Hungry Planet: Stories of Plant Diseases​

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Tree Diseases

APSnet Education Center
        Plant Disease Lessons
                Armillaria root de
                     This disease lesson has an animation of the spread of Armillaria in a forest – Click on Figure 9.
                Black knot
                Brown root rot
                Dutch elm disease
                Leucostoma canker of stone fruits
                Verticillium wilt
                White pine blister rust

APSnet Education Center

        Introduction to the Pathogen Groups
               Introduction to Parasitic Flowering Plants

      Plant Disease Lesson 
                Dwarf mistletoes
     This disease lesson includes an animation of the effect of dwarf
                mistletoe on a conifer forest over time. Click on Fig. 31.

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