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IT has often been suggested that the production of antibiotics in soil is at least partly responsible for the antagonistic relationships between actinomycetes and plant pathogenic fungi; but little direct evidence has been obtained to offset the fact that these substances have rarely been extracted from soil.
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STEVENSON, I. Antibiotic Production by Actinomycetes in Soil demonstrated by Morphological Changes induced in Helminthosporium sativum . Nature 174, 598–599 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174598b0
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