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Some comparisons of bacterial plant galls and of their causal agents

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Approved for publication by the Director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. This work was supported in part by the International Cancer Research Foundation and by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The writers are indebted to Mr. C. S. Hean for assistance in securing many of the papers cited.

Since this manuscript was prepared, a virus that causes growth has been described: L. M. Black, A virus tumor disease of plants. Am. Jour. Bot. 32: 408–415. 1945.

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Riker, A.J., Spoerl, E. & Gutsche, A.E. Some comparisons of bacterial plant galls and of their causal agents. Bot. Rev 12, 57–82 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861143

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