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Allegedly, about 90 per cent of all food crops grown on earth are propagated by seed. Nine crops are of major importance, wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum, sugarbeet, common (Phaseolus) bean, soybean and groundnut, representing by far the greater part of food production in the world. All these crops are attacked by devastating seed-borne diseases.
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© 1977 Paul Neergaard
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Neergaard, P. (1977). Economic Significance of Seed-borne Diseases. In: Seed Pathology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02842-9_1
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