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Date1833
AuthorUnger
ContributionPublished claim that parasitic fungi of plants arise from morbid sap.
ReferenceAinsworth
NotesGiven as example of opposition of even eminent botanists such as Franz Unger to germ theory of these diseases. Fungi were effects not causes. See Prevost,1807 and others.
CategoryCausation
Pathogen ClassFungi

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