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Nature 424, 712 (14 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424712b
Flowers' sick trick gives botanists double trouble
John Whitfield
Sickly plants have fooled botanists into incorporating the symptoms of their ailments into species descriptions, researchers say. The discovery raises the prospect that some plants currently classified as separate species are really just unhealthy samples of other groups.
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