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Grey Mould (Botrytis cinerea) cf Flax

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IN the course of the examination of large numbers of samples of flax seed by the Ulster method1 for the presence of seed-borne parasites, many were found to be contaminated with Botrytis cinerea. As in some of the samples more than 25 per cent of contaminated seeds was recorded, the pathogenicity of the isolate from home-saved seed was investigated, since B. cinerea is known to cause grey mould of flax.

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  1. Ministry of Agriculture, N.I., Plant Disease Division, The Queen's University, Belfast

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COLHOUN, J. Grey Mould (Botrytis cinerea) cf Flax. Nature 153, 25–26 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153025b0

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