Corn stunt spiroplasma (a bacterium) causes a great reduction in the growth rate of infected corn plants.Diseased plants take on a dwarfed form.Because their appearance is reminiscent of genetically dwarfed corn, you suspect that the bacterium may inhibit the synthesis of gibberellins by corn plants.Describe two experiments you might conduct to test this hypothesis, only one of which should require chemical measurement.
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