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Using a sterile technique, ARS scientist Gary Samuels extracts a sample of living plant tissue from a wild cacao tree on the bank of Rio Marañon in Peru. Fungi in the sample could prove useful as a biological control agent of important cacao pathogens.
Photo by ARS.
