3. HOW the disease attacks the PLANT (Wikipedia, 2008)
4. attacks in the soil : unless the, UPPER plant / fruit is SPRAYED with infected H 2 O OR PLANT tissue Rhizoctonia solani is a condition in agriculture called: ” damping off ,”. - as it causes DEATH to seedlings
5. ALSO : “ wire stem disease ,”:in cabbage/cauliflower & similar plants - results in constricted wiry stems in growth of the older seedlings (North Carolina State University, 1999)
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7. Bibliography North Carolina State University. (1999). Rhizoctonia solani . Retrieved September 3, 2008, from www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/pp728/ Rhizo ctonia / Rhizoctonia .html Wikipedia. (2008). Rhizoctonia solani . Retrieved September 3, 2008, from http//:www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Rhizoctonia _ solani - 27k -
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