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Article: Fungi can whack invasive weeds.(Agricultural Research Service's Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory )
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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American farmers and homeowners spend millions combating weeds and other alien organisms introduced from foreign countries. With the increase in international commerce and trade, the number of alien species becoming established in this country is growing every year.
"Luckily, fungi provide a vast arsenal of ammunition to control noxious weeds--both established and newly arrived--that invade roadsides, rangelands, and waterways and crowd out useful and native plants," says mycologist Amy Y. Rossman. She heads the Agricultural Research Service's Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland.
Fungi are among the most biologically diverse ...
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