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- Author(s): Kleiner, Kurt
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New Scientist. 09/16/2000, Vol. 167 Issue 2256, p16. 1/2p. 1 Color Photograph.
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Reports on farmers in the American Southwest and their use of bacteriophages to fight crop-ravaging bacteria. Discussion of fighting bacterial diseases in plants using antibiotics and copper compounds; Details of a technique introduced by Lee Jackson which prevents the bacteria from developing a resistance to the phages; Details of crop damaging bacteria, including the Xanthomonas campestiis.
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