South America

Strawberry crinkle cytorhabdovirus 5 (2)

Strawberry crinkle cytorhabdovirus, commonly called Strawberry crinkle virus (SCV), is a negative sense single stranded RNA virus that threatens strawberry production worldwide. This virus reduces plant rigidity, runner production, fruit size, and production, while causing distortion and crinkling of the leaves. This virus was first described in 1932 in Oregon and California with commercial strawberry […]

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Columbia vs Colombia 4.8 (152)

The confusion between Columbia and Colombia is one of the most common linguistic and geographic mix-ups in the English language. 🌍 While they share a common etymological root—the surname of explorer Christopher Columbus—they refer to vastly different entities: one is a South American sovereign nation, while the other is a cultural and institutional name used

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Peru 4 (2)

Peru 🇵🇪 is a sovereign nation located on the western coast of South America, bordered by Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the southeast, Chile to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west 🌊. With a land area of approximately 1.28 million km² (496,000 sq mi), Peru

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