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Mosaic disease was first reported by

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Adolf Mayer
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Robley Williams
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Louis Pasteur
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None of the above
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Solution

The correct option is A Adolf Mayer
In 1857, tobacco growers in Netherland began to report that there was a new disease of tobacco that was not caused by fungi or bacteria. In 1879, Adolph Mayer who working in the Netherlands investigated this disease and named it the mosaic disease of tobacco. Thus, the correct answer is option 'Adolf Mayer'.

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