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Spores placed into a dry permanganate-enriched surrogate soil and exposed within a column to a sterilizing flux of UV light at the column surface were killed within only the first 5 mm of the column (Figure 5).
The WP explains that the principal stumbling block to a Kosovo agreement is that Slobodan Milosevic, head of Yugoslavia and a Serb, remains opposed to a NATO peacekeeping force on Serbian soil.
And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.
Thus reduction in weight of the system could only be attributed to removal of water from the soil by plants or plant water uptake.
, the expression of symptoms such as lesions or necrosis) [ 14 ] on plants due to air-borne fungi are favored by temperatures of 15-40°C [ 12 15 ] . Field studies on plant pathogens have demonstrated that the growth of fungi is favored by high moisture and moderate temperatures [ 3 15 16 17 18 ] and that low relative humidity and extreme temperatures inhibit growth and spore germination [ 13 19 ] . Other studies on soil fungi also show that prevalence differs among habitats and seasons and correlates positively with moisture and negatively with temperature [ 13 20 ] . This apparent positive relationship between moisture and fungal growth and abundance may result from the high surface-to-volume ratio of fungi, making them vulnerable to water loss.