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Plant pathologists Paul Tooley and Nina Shishkoff examine rhododendrons for symptoms of infection with the sudden oak death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum. The plants were inoculated with 5,000 spores and incubated at 100-percent relative humidity to allow infection and symptom development.