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dissect out some of the parasites. She could not find any. Of course, 

 no one would believe her, but everybody had a hand in it, and nobody 

 else could find any root-knot. There were root-knot galls but no root- 

 knot nematodes. 



I think that there are cases where these parasites do go into plants, 

 and they do produce galling, sometimes considerable, and then die, leav- 

 ing no remnants that are easy to findj they can be found, but not 

 easily. 



Well, those are my thoughts. 



