Word: oates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-Speed Breeding. Trying to develop a blight-resistant kind of oat, Plant Pathologist H. E. Wheeler of Louisiana State University envied the wholesale methods of bacteriologists. When they want a bacterial strain that is resistant to, say, penicillin, they treat a culture containing millions or billions of bacteria with the drug. Only a few may survive, but the survivors multiply rapidly, and soon the culture is alive with the resistant strain...
...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...
...season, instead of 15 years, Dr. Wheeler got disease-resistant oat seed, which he is holding for further testing. His experiment cost only about 800 man-hours of labor. He thinks it will prove helpful in breeding many kinds of disease-resistant plants...
...able to stretch his legs at the farm, and his first respite from his heavy duties around the White House and at the Geneva conference since late April. He looked around with obvious pride: the corn stood nine feet high in some fields, and the contoured hay, wheat and oat fields had been stripped of the harvest. The pastures looked a little parched by the midsummer sun, but a good, drenching rain would (and did, later in the week) bring them back. Farmer Eisenhower had expectations of a fair 1955 crop...
Standing on a beflagged platform in a newly mown oat field near Massena, N.Y. one afternoon last week, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey pressed a buzzer. Some two miles away in the St. Lawrence River, buried dynamite charges exploded, hurling geysers of water into the air. Fireworks burst overhead, releasing a rain of miniature U.S. flags and Canadian ensigns. At long last construction was started on the huge electric-power project undertaken jointly by the State of New York and the Canadian Province of Ontario. Said Dewey: "The crapehangers may now soak their heads. This...