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Factors Affect Transmission Describe Explain Communicable Diseases Plants

Front Describe and explain 6 factors that affect the transmission of communicable diseases in plants.
Back Factors that affect transmission in plants:
  • Planting varieties of crops suceptible to disease
  • Overcrowding increases likelihood of contact
  • Poor mineral nutrition reduces resistance of plants
  • Damp, warm conditions increase the survival and spread of pathogens and spores
  • Climate change - increased rainfall and wind


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