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Zoospore motility favoured infection when sprouts and inoculum source were contigous. Infection from more distant inoculum involved soil fauna; earthworms were associated with infected plants 9 to 25 cm away from the inoculum source.
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Hampson, M.C., Coombes, J.W. Pathogenesis ofSynchytrium endobioticum VII. Earthworms as vectors of wart disease of potato. Plant Soil 116, 147–150 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02214540
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