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Linda Kinkel is a professor of plant pathology in the University of Minnesota's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.
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Linda Kinkel is a professor of plant pathology in the University of Minnesota's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.
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