Just add water: New discovery in plant-disease mechanism Date: November 23, 2016 Source: Michigan State University Summary: Too much rain, coupled with prolonged high levels of humidity, can result in more plant disease, new research indicates.

Kinya Nomura and Xiu-Fang Xin are research associates in MSU’s Plant Research Laboratory. They are part of a research team that discovered how certain climate conditions, especially high humidity, can create disease outbreaks in plants. Xin was the lead author of the paper that is published in Nature.

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