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Researchers Demonstrate Using UV-C to Fight Strawberry Disease

Scott Elliott at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture reports Fumiomi Takeda, a research horticulturalist, and Wojciech Janisiewicz, retired research plant pathologist, from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement, and Protection unit in Kearneysville, W. Va., led a team that used shortwave ultraviolet light (UV-C) to kill powdery mildew fungus.UV-C is a very specific part…

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