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Sclerotinia Porri on Allium spp. in England

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While working at Cambridge, Mrs. R. H. Richens found that plants of crow garlic, Allium vineale, examined in June and July., were often attacked by a species of Botrytis. Cultures of this fungus, made on Dox's agar in July 1946, have produced both Botrytis conidiophores and apothecia.

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CRONSHEY, J. Sclerotinia Porri on Allium spp. in England. Nature 160, 798 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160798a0

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