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suppressive soil
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control of plant diseases
- 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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