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A single planting of a particular variety of a crop. It permits a disease to sweep through that variety causing massive economic and social ruin, such as the irish potato famine

More recently bananas which have been bred from only two varieties and propoagated by vegetative means like cuttings (see plant propagation, have come under attack from a fungal disease that promises to destroy the entire banana crop.



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