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Seed-Plant Transmission, Establishment of Infection and Course of Disease

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Seed Pathology

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The establishment and development of infection within the seedling or subsequent adult plant is the last decisive link in the process of seed transmission. Seed transmission has been established only if this completion of the infection course has been positively demonstrated to the exclusion of other means of transmission. An organism or a virus may be seed-borne and yet not seed-transmitted.

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© 1977 Paul Neergaard

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Neergaard, P. (1977). Seed-Plant Transmission, Establishment of Infection and Course of Disease. In: Seed Pathology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02842-9_14

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