Disease-resisting Sugar-Canes
Abstract
IT is observed in your issue for November 7 last in the article entitled ``Immunity to Disease among Plants'', being an abstract of a letter delivered before the British Pharmaceutical Conference at Manchester by Prof. F. E. Weiss, that the following statement occurs :- ``In the West Indies, the Bourbon cane has been given up on account of disease, but very useful and disease-resisting hybrids have been produced by crossing the valuable but easily attacked Tjeribon cane with the resistant Indian Tschan cane.''
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- March 1908
- DOI:
- 10.1038/077438a0
- Bibcode:
- 1908Natur..77Q.438M