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When plants and their microbes are not in sync, the results can be disastrous

  • Written by Sheng-Yang He, University Distinguished Professor, HHMI Investigator, Michigan State University
imageA healthy wild-type _Arabidopsis_ plant (left) and a mutant plant suffering from a microbe imbalance (right).Sheng-Yang He, CC BY-SA

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