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The rice seedlings infected with fungus Gibberllafujikuroi is called foolish seedlings? What was the reason behind it?

The property of Gibberellin that causes foolish seedling disease in rice is the elongation of internodes.

E. Kurosawa reported the symptoms of the disease in uninfected rice seedlings when they were treated with gibberellic acid.


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