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- Title
Flowers' sick trick gives botanists double trouble.
- Authors
Whitfield, John
- Abstract
Sickly plants have fooled botanists into incorporating the symptoms of their ailments into species descriptions, researchers say. The discovery raises the prospect that some plants currently classified as separate species are really just unhealthy samples of other groups. "We need to continually validate the accuracy of species descriptions," says botanist Michael Hood of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. The disease discovery throws fresh light on a major problem area in taxonomy, botanists say.
- Subjects
CHARLOTTESVILLE (Va.); VIRGINIA; UNITED States; PLANT species; PLANT diseases; HOOD, Michael
- Publication
Nature, 2003, Vol 424, Issue 6950, p712
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/424712b