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IN the course of breeding experiments, Mr. B. Crombie of the Irish Sugar Co. observed in 1946 that three separate field crops of a new family of sugar beet showed in each case approximately 25 per cent of ‘‘yellowed plants two to three weeks after singling. He stated that the disease resembled typical virus yellows but did not appear to spread to neighbouring beet crops. The parent plants of the family (No. 41) had been selected from good commercial beet crops in a relatively virus-free district, but no information was available as to their freedom or otherwise from yellows. The cross had been made in 1945 in a pollen-proof cage.
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CLINCH, P., LOUGHNANE, J. & MCKAY, R. Transmission of a Disease Resembling Virus Yellows through the ‘‘Seed of Sugar Beet. Nature 161, 28–29 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161028b0
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