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Agricultural Research Service: Microbial Allies May Help Turn Tables on Tar Spot Fungus in Corn
October 24, 2023
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news release:

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are leaving no stone-or rather, leaf-unturned in their search for new ways to counter the fungus that causes tar spot, a yield-robbing disease of field corn in the midwestern United States.

First reported in Illinois and Indiana in 2015, tar spot has now expanded to include other nearby . . .

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