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Name: Luis
Status: student
Age: 13
Location: N/A
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Date: 3/26/2004
Question:
What is mold that grows on fruit?

Replies:
There are various molds (fungi) that grow on fruits.

For example:

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3017.html

http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/marketdiseases/peargraymold.html

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/factsheets/Tomato_Botrytis.htm

Sincerely,

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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