Historic outbreaks of coffee wilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus (IMAGE)

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Historic outbreaks of coffee wilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus

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A Coffea arabica leaf infected with Fusarium xylarioides, a vascular wilt pathogen and the causal agent of coffee wilt disease. The leaf exhibits yellowing, a typical early symptom of infection, as the pathogen colonises the plant xylem.

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Lily Peck (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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