German term In GERMAN the nouns „Phyto (lat.)“ for plants and „medicine“ for health care address the science about keeping plants healthy. Hence, medicine ON plants. Caution: The term is a „false friend“ [...] - what is in this box? The focus is on crops which do not perform because of massively increased occurrences of viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, animals. Tasks are to clarify the backgrounds in combination [...] complete the picture: agroecosystems (from plant cell to crop stands) in space (landscape) and time (sequences of crops) embedded into economic systems (farms) und production chains up to the consumer
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