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Fungi that cause leaf spots can reduce yields from mango crops (Joel Montes)

Fungi that cause leaf spots can reduce the yield from mango crops (Joel Montes)

We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this fortnight include fungi associated with boll and lint rot of cotton in Iran, leaf spot-causing pathogen Nigrospora sphaerica found on mango for the first time and Bursaphelenchus koreanus found in packaging wood from South Korea.

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