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Unit 1: Identification and Collection of Bioherbicidal Resources - Practice Quiz

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1 What is an allelopathic plant?

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A. A plant that cannot produce seeds
B. A plant that produces edible fruits
C. A plant that grows only in water
D. A plant that releases chemicals affecting nearby plants

2 What is the main purpose of a field visit to study allelopathic plants?

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A. To store collected samples in a freezer
B. To observe and identify plants in their natural habitat
C. To prepare microbial culture media indoors
D. To measure the temperature of laboratory chemicals

3 Which plant feature is commonly observed during field identification?

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A. Culture medium color
B. Leaf shape
C. Microscope lens size
D. Laboratory pH value

4 Why should the scientific name of an identified plant be recorded?

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A. To prevent all insect damage
B. To ensure accurate identification
C. To increase the plant's height
D. To change the soil color

5 Which item is useful for recording observations during a field visit?

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A. Bunsen burner
B. Autoclave
C. Petri dish
D. Field notebook

6 Which observation may suggest that a plant has allelopathic effects?

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A. Reduced growth of nearby plants
B. Increased thickness of laboratory glassware
C. Change in color of a microscope lens
D. Formation of bubbles in sterile water

7 What should be checked before collecting a plant during a field visit?

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A. Correct plant identity
B. The color of the laboratory walls
C. The brand of microscope
D. The number of culture tubes available

8 What is a bioherbicidal pathogen?

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A. A pathogen used to control weeds
B. A fertilizer used to increase crop height
C. A chemical used to preserve seeds
D. A mineral used to improve soil texture

9 Which group of organisms commonly includes bioherbicidal pathogens?

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A. Flowering plants
B. Mosses
C. Fungi
D. Earthworms

10 Which instrument is commonly used to observe microorganisms in the laboratory?

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A. Measuring cylinder
B. Microscope
C. Thermometer
D. Balance

11 What is the purpose of using a culture medium?

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A. To remove all plant pigments
B. To measure plant height
C. To support microbial growth
D. To identify soil texture

12 Which laboratory practice helps prevent contamination of pathogen cultures?

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A. Maintaining aseptic conditions
B. Using unwashed instruments repeatedly
C. Leaving culture plates uncovered
D. Mixing all samples in one container

13 Which feature can help identify a fungal pathogen?

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A. Length of a laboratory table
B. Soil color only
C. Spore shape
D. Leaf arrangement of a crop

14 Why are pathogen samples labeled in the laboratory?

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A. To increase the weight of the sample
B. To change the pathogen's species
C. To make the pathogen grow faster
D. To track sample identity

15 A pathogen that affects only a particular weed species is described as having what characteristic?

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A. Water solubility
B. Soil compaction
C. Leaf expansion
D. Host specificity

16 Which plant part may be collected for preparing an allelopathic extract?

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A. Culture plates
B. Laboratory gloves
C. Glass slides
D. Leaves

17 Why should plant materials be collected from healthy plants?

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A. To make the plants grow during storage
B. To obtain representative chemical material
C. To sterilize the extraction equipment
D. To increase the size of the collection bag

18 What should be done first after collecting plant material?

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A. Mix it with laboratory waste
B. Remove dirt and unwanted materials
C. Add soil to the sample
D. Expose the sample to rain

19 Why is plant material often dried before extraction?

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A. To reduce moisture content
B. To prevent the use of extraction solvents
C. To increase the number of plant species
D. To remove the plant's scientific name

20 Which information should be recorded when collecting plant material?

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A. Brand of the collector's footwear
B. Collection date and location
C. Favorite color of the collector
D. Number of windows in the laboratory

21 During a field visit, seedlings are consistently sparse beneath a suspected allelopathic shrub. Which survey design provides the strongest preliminary evidence while controlling for habitat variation?

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A. Compare shrub height between shaded and unshaded locations
B. Compare vegetation beside shrubs with matched sites lacking them
C. Compare soil texture only within the shrub-covered locations
D. Compare leaf color beneath shrubs at different times of day

22 A patch beneath a tree has fewer weeds, but it is also heavily shaded. What is the best next step before classifying the tree as allelopathic?

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A. Count only the mature weeds growing beneath the tree
B. Measure the tree diameter and compare it with nearby trees
C. Test its extract under uniform light with a suitable control
D. Photograph the shaded patch during the middle of the day

23 A suspected allelopathic plant cannot be identified confidently in the field. Which action best supports later verification of its identity?

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A. Collect loose leaves without recording the location
B. Photograph the surrounding weeds without the plant
C. Prepare a voucher specimen with collection details
D. Record only the local name given by residents

24 Four plants are encountered during a survey. Which one should receive the highest priority for initial allelopathic screening?

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A. A rare plant found once beside a shaded stream
B. An aromatic plant surrounded by normally growing seedlings
C. A common plant repeatedly bordered by low seedling density
D. A tall plant growing only in cultivated garden soil

25 Two populations of the same suspected allelopathic species will be compared. Which sampling strategy best reduces variation caused by plant development?

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A. Collect different organs from each population
B. Collect plants at the same phenological stage
C. Collect flowering plants from only one population
D. Collect the largest plants available at each location

26 Which field record is most useful for interpreting whether reduced weed growth is associated with a suspected allelopathic plant?

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A. GPS location, neighboring vegetation, soil moisture, and canopy cover
B. Flower color, travel duration, air temperature, and plant price
C. Local name, road distance, and collection bag size
D. Plant height, observer name, and camera model

27 A promising allelopathic plant is found inside a protected area. What is the most appropriate collection decision?

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A. Obtain permission and collect only the authorized amount
B. Remove whole plants before the population is disturbed
C. Collect roots because they provide the strongest evidence
D. Collect at night to avoid affecting visitor activities

28 A leaf lesion on a weed contains dead tissue in the center and a newly expanding margin. From which region should tissue be taken for pathogen isolation?

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A. From healthy tissue far away from the lesion
B. From soil attached to the lower leaf surface
C. From dry tissue at the center of the lesion
D. From the boundary of diseased and healthy tissue

29 Which procedure is most appropriate before placing a diseased weed fragment onto culture medium?

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A. Briefly disinfect, sterile-rinse, and blot the fragment
B. Wash it in tap water and leave the surface wet
C. Heat the fragment until all surface microbes are killed
D. Soak it overnight in concentrated disinfectant solution

30 Two fungal isolates have nearly identical colony appearance. Which approach would provide the most reliable species-level identification?

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A. Select the isolate that grows faster at room temperature
B. Combine diagnostic morphology with molecular sequence data
C. Identify both isolates from the symptoms on the weed
D. Compare only the color produced on one growth medium

31 Which experiment best demonstrates that an isolated microorganism causes the observed disease on a weed?

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A. Inoculate healthy weeds, reproduce symptoms, and reisolate it
B. Observe spores directly on the original diseased tissue
C. Grow the microorganism repeatedly on nutrient-rich agar
D. Compare lesion color with photographs in a reference book

32 A fungal isolate causes severe disease on a target weed. Which test is most important before considering it as a bioherbicide candidate?

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A. Measure its growth on several artificial culture media
B. Compare its spore color under different light sources
C. Inoculate the target weed and representative crop species
D. Determine its survival in sealed laboratory containers

33 Diseased weed samples repeatedly arrive at the laboratory covered with secondary molds. Which transport method would best reduce this problem?

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A. Submerge the samples in sterile water during transport
B. Dry samples in direct sunlight before laboratory transport
C. Wrap samples in paper, keep them cool, and process promptly
D. Seal wet samples in plastic bags at room temperature

34 A culture obtained from a weed lesion contains several fungal colony types. What is the best method for obtaining a genetically uniform candidate isolate?

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A. Transfer the oldest region from the mixed culture
B. Mix equal portions of every colony into one tube
C. Incubate the mixed culture until one type dominates
D. Establish a single-spore or hyphal-tip culture

35 Leaves are being collected from two sites to compare their allelopathic activity. Which sampling plan gives the most comparable materials?

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A. Collect diseased leaves from the largest plant at each site
B. Collect healthy leaves of similar age from several plants
C. Collect fallen leaves from whichever plants are most accessible
D. Collect old leaves at one site and young leaves at another

36 A heavy rain occurs shortly before the planned collection of leaves for extraction. If surface-associated allelochemicals are important, what should the researcher do?

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A. Mix wet leaves with previously collected dry materials
B. Collect immediately because rain increases every allelochemical
C. Wash the leaves again to standardize their water exposure
D. Delay collection for a consistent interval and record the rainfall

37 The target allelochemicals are believed to be heat-sensitive. Which method is most suitable for drying the collected plant material?

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A. Shade-dry with ventilation at a controlled low temperature
B. Dry rapidly under intense sunlight on a metal surface
C. Store wet material in sealed bags for several days
D. Oven-dry at a high temperature until the tissue darkens

38 After drying and grinding, the plant material cannot be extracted immediately. Which storage condition best protects it from moisture and light?

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A. A clear container stored in a humid greenhouse
B. A loosely covered beaker near a heating oven
C. An open paper tray beside a laboratory window
D. A sealed amber container kept cool and dry

39 An extraction protocol requires a plant material-to-solvent ratio of (w/v). How much solvent is required for g of dried plant material?

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A. mL
B. mL
C. mL
D. mL

40 A researcher is collecting leaves from several suspected allelopathic species during one field trip. Which practice best prevents cross-contamination?

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A. Reuse one damp bag for species from each location
B. Clean tools and use separate labeled bags for each species
C. Combine all leaves before assigning collection numbers
D. Place different species together and separate them later

41 A shrub is surrounded by a nearly vegetation-free zone, but soil beneath its canopy is also drier and more shaded than adjacent soil. Which field-sampling strategy best supports a defensible preliminary diagnosis of allelopathy rather than resource competition?

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A. Sample vegetation and soil along replicated distance transects while measuring light, moisture, nutrients, and donor-root density
B. Collect leaves from the largest shrub and compare their morphology with plants growing outside the bare zone
C. Count target plants beneath one shrub before and after rainfall while excluding all neighboring plant species
D. Measure canopy diameter in several shrubs and correlate it only with the diameter of each vegetation-free zone

42 Two field populations assigned to the same allelopathic species differ greatly in suppressive activity. Which documentation is most useful for determining whether the difference reflects misidentification, phenology, or geographic chemotypes?

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A. A composite soil sample accompanied by the common name used by nearby landowners
B. One pooled leaf sample labeled only with the species name and collection month
C. Georeferenced voucher specimens, phenological stage, habitat data, and separately labeled population samples
D. Several photographs of the vegetation-free zones without specimens or environmental measurements

43 A suspected allelopathic plant is difficult to distinguish from a non-allelopathic congener when sterile. What is the most reliable field-collection decision?

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A. Collect only roots because belowground characters always separate closely related plant species
B. Assign the species according to which congener has previously been reported as allelopathic
C. Identify it from leaf color alone because pigmentation is usually stable across habitats
D. Collect fertile vouchers and diagnostic vegetative material, supplementing them with DNA-based confirmation if necessary

44 Target-plant density increases with distance from a suspected allelopathic tree. Which additional observation would most strongly weaken the claim that allelochemicals caused the pattern?

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A. Target seeds germinate poorly in aqueous extracts prepared from freshly collected tree litter
B. Target roots are shorter in soil collected beneath several trees than in reference soil
C. Target density tracks photosynthetically active radiation after donor distance is included in the analysis
D. Target density remains low where litter is present despite uniform soil nutrient concentrations

45 An ecologist wants to compare vegetation suppression around an invasive allelopathic plant with suppression around a native non-allelopathic shrub. Which design best minimizes habitat-selection bias?

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A. Compare all invasive individuals from one site with all native individuals from a geographically distant site
B. Select paired individuals of similar size occupying matched soils, slopes, canopy conditions, and disturbance histories
C. Compare invasive plants from roadsides with native shrubs selected from undisturbed forest interiors
D. Select the largest individuals of each species because large plants produce the clearest inhibition zones

46 Suppression occurs mainly downslope from a suspected donor after heavy rain. Which inference is most consistent with this directional pattern?

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A. Root competition is excluded because donor roots cannot grow preferentially in the downslope direction
B. Water-transported allelochemicals may contribute, but runoff, erosion, and moisture gradients must also be tested
C. Allelopathy is disproved because dissolved compounds cannot move laterally through field soil
D. Volatile allelochemicals are proven because they normally accumulate only in downslope soil after rainfall

47 A perennial species contains the highest reported allelochemical concentration just before flowering. During a field survey, populations range from vegetative to fruiting stages. Which sampling plan provides the strongest comparison among populations?

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A. Collect every population on one calendar date and ignore developmental differences among sites
B. Collect only the tallest individual from each population because plant height integrates developmental stage
C. Sample individuals at a matched phenological stage and record stage, age indicators, and collection conditions
D. Pool vegetative and fruiting tissues within each population to average all phenological effects

48 Several fungal morphotypes are recovered from the same necrotic lesion on a weed. Which workflow most reliably identifies the organism responsible for disease?

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A. Pool all colonies, spray the mixture onto wounded leaves, and retain any species detected after symptoms develop
B. Obtain pure isolates, characterize them, inoculate healthy weeds with controls, and reisolate from reproduced lesions
C. Select the fastest-growing colony and identify it from colony color without reinoculating the host
D. Sequence DNA directly from the mixed lesion and assign causality to the most abundant sequence

49 An ITS sequence from a candidate fungal bioherbicide is 100% identical to several closely related species with different host ranges. What is the best next step?

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A. Identify the isolate from lesion color because disease symptoms are more species-specific than sequence data
B. Accept the first database match because complete ITS identity always establishes fungal species
C. Use additional validated loci or genomic data, compare reference material, and retain pathogenicity evidence
D. Repeat ITS sequencing at lower coverage so that minor sequencing differences separate the candidate species

50 A rust fungus suspected as a bioherbicidal agent cannot be grown on artificial medium. Which approach most appropriately adapts causal identification for this obligate biotroph?

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A. Sequence healthy and diseased leaves once and identify whichever fungal taxon appears in both tissue types
B. Transfer purified spores to healthy living hosts, reproduce symptoms, and verify the fungus microscopically or molecularly
C. Culture bacteria from rust pustules and regard the most abundant bacterial isolate as the causal organism
D. Declare the rust nonpathogenic because failure to grow axenically violates an indispensable requirement for pathogenicity

51 A fungal isolate causes severe lesions only when leaves are needle-wounded and treated with spores per mL, whereas natural infections occur on unwounded leaves. Which experiment best tests its practical bioherbicidal relevance?

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A. Measure colony diameter on rich agar and infer virulence from the maximum radial growth rate
B. Repeat the wounded-leaf assay at an even higher dose to maximize lesion development
C. Test unwounded plants across field-realistic inoculum doses under controlled dew periods with mock controls
D. Sequence the isolate again and infer natural infectivity from its taxonomic relationship to known pathogens

52 A bacterial isolate from diseased weeds has a 16S rRNA sequence shared by pathogenic and nonpathogenic members of the same species complex. Which evidence best resolves its identity and bioherbicidal significance?

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A. A Gram-stain result combined with the odor and pigmentation of colonies on one medium
B. Microscopic observation of bacterial cells inside lesions without isolation or healthy-host controls
C. A second 16S sequence from the same colony combined with a larger database search
D. Multilocus or whole-genome comparison combined with phenotype, pathogenicity, and reisolation data

53 PCR detects a candidate pathogen in diseased weeds, healthy weeds, and the DNA-extraction blank, all with similarly late amplification. What is the most defensible interpretation?

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A. The pathogen is confirmed as causal because detection in the blank demonstrates that the primers are sensitive
B. Reagent or workflow contamination is likely, so extraction and PCR should be repeated with stronger controls
C. The diseased plants contain abundant pathogen DNA because late amplification indicates a high starting template
D. The pathogen is latent in every healthy weed because any amplification is conclusive evidence of infection

54 A candidate fungal bioherbicide controls the target weed in a growth chamber. Which host-range test provides the most informative initial biosafety assessment?

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A. Test unrelated crops only because close relatives of the weed are expected to have identical resistance
B. Use a phylogenetically structured panel emphasizing close relatives, crops, natives, and susceptible controls
C. Expose one representative plant family to a single low dose under conditions unfavorable for infection
D. Inoculate only the target weed repeatedly because strong efficacy implies narrow host specificity

55 Equal fresh masses of leaf lots X and Y produce equal inhibition after extraction into equal solvent volumes. Lot X is 75% water and lot Y is 50% water. Assuming linear dose-response and complete extraction, what follows about activity per gram of dry tissue?

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A. Lot X has approximately twice the activity of lot Y per gram of dry tissue
B. Both lots have equal activity because their fresh masses and inhibition are equal
C. Lot Y has approximately twice the activity of lot X per gram of dry tissue
D. Their dry-mass activities cannot differ because solvent volumes were held constant

56 Researchers compare allelopathic activity among four species, but each species is collected at a different time of day. Because metabolite concentrations vary diurnally, which redesign best separates species effects from collection-time effects?

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A. Distribute collection of every species across matched time blocks and randomize sampling order within blocks
B. Collect the rarest species first and the most abundant species last on every sampling date
C. Pool material from all collection times before extraction so that time no longer appears in the data
D. Collect all replicates of each species consecutively and correct the results using ambient temperature alone

57 Leaves from 30 donor plants are available for estimating natural variation in extract activity. Which sampling structure avoids pseudoreplication while still permitting technical precision to be measured?

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A. Process each donor independently and nest replicate extractions or bioassay wells within donor identity
B. Pool all leaves into one sample and treat repeated bioassay wells as 30 independent plants
C. Pool leaves into three containers and treat ten subsamples from each container as independent donors
D. Select one donor, prepare 30 extracts from it, and treat each extract as a biological replicate

58 Root extracts show unusually high apparent activity, but collected roots carried variable amounts of adhering soil. Which collection procedure best reduces bias without causing prolonged chemical loss?

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A. Remove visible soil after extraction and normalize activity using the original fresh mass of the mixture
B. Apply a brief standardized rinse, blot consistently, process rapidly, and normalize using root dry mass
C. Retain all adhering soil because soil mass is an inseparable component of root allelopathy
D. Wash roots for several hours in warm water to remove soil and extract surface compounds simultaneously

59 The suspected active compounds are volatile terpenoids that are readily oxidized. Which post-collection handling method best preserves a sample representative of field material?

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A. Spread the tissue in direct sunlight until constant mass is reached, then store it in paper bags
B. Chop the tissue finely in open trays at field temperature to accelerate water and oxygen removal
C. Store the tissue for several days in loosely capped transparent containers before determining its mass
D. Seal the tissue promptly in inert airtight containers, keep it cold and dark, and minimize storage time

60 After rainfall, senescent donor leaves yield stronger aqueous extracts than dry-weather leaves. Which sampling design best determines whether rainfall caused chemical leaching or whether leaf age caused the difference?

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A. Collect only freshly fallen litter because rainfall and tissue age cannot be separated statistically
B. Cross rainfall condition with matched leaf-age classes using replicated donors and standardized handling
C. Pool all ages after rain and compare them with one dry-weather sample from a single donor
D. Compare wet senescent leaves with dry young leaves collected from different populations
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