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Perspective reveals a disconnect between general soil health and crop disease suppression, indicating that healthy soil biology does not guarantee disease-free plants.
Healthy soils produce healthy crops. right? Nope. Although it would seem the very definition of soil health, this popular thinking does not match what plant pathologists find (Janvier et al., 2007). It s not true.
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