Word: oat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These 389 units-will be only for persons oat affiliated with Harvard, but another 600-700 housing units currently being planned by the University in Cambridge will include units for both Harvard and non-Harvard personnel...
...inhabitants, but they have doubled in strength each year since 1963. Their growing following is symptomatic of the stirrings within the realm that 19th century English Clergyman-Critic Sydney Smith dismissed contemptuously as "that garret of the earth, that knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur." After dour decades of stagnation, the Scots are surging forward with a new spirit...
...Agriculture Department, which was concerned about the possibility that the disease might spread to the U.S., Harpaz finally identified the virus carrier as a tiny plant hopper named Delphacodes striatellus. The insect, he discovered, was not particularly fond of corn, preferring the sap of barley, wheat and oat plants during winter and wild grasses in the summer. But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses. In the process, the corn-killing viruses thriving in the insects' saliva...
...recent mutant, oat rust 264, has been one of the nastiest of all, defying all efforts at control. Now, after a long search, the Israeli scientist who first identified the virulent fungus back in 1953 has not only found a wild strain of 264-proof oats, he has a plan that will enable farmers to prepare for the inevitable appearance of the next new deadly mutant...
...Troublesome Trait. Designated 6-105 by the Agriculture Department, the new wild oat, which has a high protein value, resists the rusts that destroy 6% of the U.S. oat crop every year. To eliminate its tendency to lose some of its kernels before harvesting, it is currently being bred with existing commercial varieties at Agriculture Department stations in Midwestern and Southern states. When that troublesome trait is eliminated and varieties bred from 6-105 finally go into large-scale production, they could save the U.S. farmer upwards of $26 million per year...