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In 1920s, the Japanese biologist Kurosawa and his colleagues discovered the foolish-seedling disease , in which rice plants grew too tall, mainly because of

A

a gibberellin secreting fungi

B

the herbicide 2, 4-D

C

degraded nucleic acids

D

too much auxin, due to stagnant water in the fields

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