Prevention of Seedling Blight in the Flax Crop
Abstract
SEEDLING blight, caused by Colletotrichum Lini (Westerd.) Toch., is a disease of flax which is likely to assume greater importance should the cultivation of flax and the home-saving of seed become more widely and intensively practised. The parasite is seed-borne and damage caused by it to the crop would be largely prevented if a satisfactory method of seed disinfection, whereby the parasite is killed and the germination of the seed unimpaired, could be found.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- July 1940
- DOI:
- 10.1038/146032b0
- Bibcode:
- 1940Natur.146...32M