Word: helminthosporium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breed oats resistant to Helminthosporium victoriae blight, Dr. Wheeler decided to copy the method of the bacteriologists. He reports in Science that he sprouted 100 bu. of oats (about 45 million grains), then doused the sprouted seeds with the toxin (poisonous secretion) of the Helminthosporium fungus, and later with the fungus itself. Out of the 45 million, 973 seedlings survived and grew. Thirty days later they were treated with all the other oat diseases, and 471 survived the second ordeal...
Handy Reference. In Washington, the Department of Agriculture put out a farm pamphlet on corn-leaf blight entitled: "Cultural and Pathogenic Variability in Single-Conidial and Hyphal-Tip Isolates of Helminthosporium Turcicum Pass...
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