suppressive soil

agriculture

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control of plant diseases

  • blight
    In plant disease: Biological control

    …is to make use of suppressive soils—those in which a pathogen is known to persist but causes little damage to the crop. A likely explanation for this phenomenon is that suppressive soils harbour antagonists that compete with the pathogen for food and thereby limit the growth of the pathogen population.

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