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- not comparablerareSprouting from, supported by, or carried by a leaf.
To preserve leafborne inoculum, it is best to avoid fertilizing at leaf-fall in autumn and cultivating or mowing in the spring before fruit set.
1986, A. L. Jones, G. R. Ehret, “Field Evaluation of Fungicides for Control of Diseases on Tart Cherries”, in Methods for Evaluating Pesticides for Control of Plant Pathogens, page 1212 more examples
[…] many Costa Rican frogs perch their eggs on leaves, where the eggs then hatch into tadpoles. Some leafborne eggs are laid above water so the tadpoles fall into streams below.
2006, Hannah Robinson, Costa Rica: An Ecotraveller's Guide, page 43The microbiologists then discovered that the leafborne agent was Pseudomonas syringae, a ubiquitous leaf-dwelling bacterium that sometimes causes plant disease.
2010, John L. Ingraham, March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen, page 264
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