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The rice seedlings infected with fungus Gibberella fujikuroi is called follish seedling? What was the reason behind it?

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The fungus Gibberella fuijkuroi when infects rice plant, it causes increase in internodal area of rice so, that the rice plant become foolishly tall as compored to nromal ones . This is beaacuse this fungi produces GA in considerabley higher amounts which causes opver growth of rice plants thus , cvausing foolish disease.
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