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Word: helminthosporium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blight (Helminthosporium maydis), though not yet so severe as last year's attack, has now spread on its wind-borne spores to 31 states. Flourishing in warm, wet weather, the pathogen reduces the size of kernels, weakens the stalks and rots the ears. Because farmers have enough feed grain to last for nearly a year, however, the blight probably will not noticeably affect the price of such foods as meat, milk, cheese and poultry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: The New Plagues of Summer | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...record yield-about 314 million hundredweight for the year. The hops of Oregon's Willamette Valley are in the sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight-has appeared in the richest corn fields of the American breadbasket, and the damage has been serious. Yet the U.S. will still have the third best corn crop in its history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Harvest Moon | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

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