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This book is part of the Plant Pathology in the 21st Century Series, started in the occasion of the IX International Congress of Plant Pathology, Torino, 2008.

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As agricultural production increases to meet the demands of a growing world population, so has the pace of biotechnology research to combat plant disease. Disea