New laboratory sheds light on diseases that can cause a catastrophe

By Deborah Smith
Updated July 16 2012 - 10:08am, first published 3:00am
Out from under the microscope … Len Tesoriero, a plant pathologist at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, holds a Petri dish containing the fungus Fusarium, which can wilt watermelon.
Out from under the microscope … Len Tesoriero, a plant pathologist at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, holds a Petri dish containing the fungus Fusarium, which can wilt watermelon.

IT IS a worst-case scenario for the state: two different disease emergencies, affecting plants and animals, simultaneously.

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