Plants can get sick, but since they don’t walk around sneezing on each other, the things that infect them need some very weird strategies to spread.
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Sources:
Crown gall
http://archive.bio.ed.ac.uk/jdeacon/microbes/crown.htm
https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHYTO-12-14-0380-RVW
Christie & Gordon, 2015: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292801/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2014.00730/full
Mummy Berry
https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/disandpath/fungalasco/pdlessons/Pages/MummyBerry.aspx https://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/host-disease/blueberry-vaccinium-corymbosum-mummy-berry
Cedar-apple rust
https://extension.umn.edu/plant-diseases/cedar-apple-rust
http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/factsheets/cedarapplerust.pdf
http://www.fungusfactfriday.com/087-gymnosporangium-juniperi-virginianae/
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agrobacterium-tumefaciens.png
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https://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/host-disease/blueberry-vaccinium-corymbosum-mummy-berry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_apple_rust_showing_stomata.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae_gall.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae_gall_sprouting.png
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