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Antibiotic use in plant agriculture.
Annual review of phytopathology - 1 Jan 2002
McManus Patricia S, Stockwell Virginia O, Sundin George W, Jones Alan L
Abstract excerpt
Antibiotics have been used since the 1950s to control certain bacterial diseases of high-value fruit, vegetable, and ornamental plants. Today, the antibiotics most commonly used on plants are oxytetracycline and streptomycin. In the USA, antibiotics applied to plants account for less than 0.5% of total antibiotic use. Resistance of plant pathogens to oxytetracycline is rare, but the emergence of...
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