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From: baxter@navajo.UUCP (Ray Baxter)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Cholesterol in plants
Message-ID: <1987@navajo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 15:30:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 15:30:49 1987
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Organization: Biological Sciences, Stanford University
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In article <2560@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Denise Lim writes:
>In article <2972@husc6.UUCP> hendler@endor.UUCP (David Hendler) writes:
>>the only galls I know of in plants are the ones insects produce on trees)?
>Insects do not produce galls.  They are caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens,
>a type of bacteria

Some galls are producd by insects.  They lay eggs in leaves and other plant
tissues producing galls. Fungi and bacteria can also infect plants, causing
galls.

Ray Baxter