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IN the course of an investigation on the influence of the intensity of reduction of a submerged soil on the growth and yield of rice, it was observed that three of the twenty-seven treatments studied exhibited symptoms strongly suggestive of a wide-spread disease of rice of unknown cause, described in the literature as ‘mentek’ in Java1–3, ‘penyakit merah’ in Malaya4, browning disease in Ceylon5,6, and under various local names in India and Burma2,7,8.
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PONNAMPERUMA, F., BRADFIELD, R. & PEECH, M. Physiological Disease of Rice attributable to Iron Toxicity. Nature 175, 265 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175265a0
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