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Citrus Leprosis: Centennial of an Unusual Mite-Virus Pathosystem

PLANT DISEASE (2010)

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PLANT DISEASE

Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 284-292

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AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC

DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-94-3-0284

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