Abstract
IN certain seasons some of the bacterial diseases which attack farm crops do sufficient damage to become serious economic factors. An instance of this was provided in 1918 by the "halo-blight"of oats which caused much trouble throughout Wisconsin and other parts of the United States (C. Elliott, Journ. Agric. Research, 1920, vol. xix., No. 4). The blight appears to be present in oat-fields every season, but attracts attention only when it develops strongly and does serious damage under particularly favourable weather conditions. The epidemics disappear if the weather changes to a type more favourable to the development of the plant.
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B., W. Bacterial Diseases of Farm Crops. Nature 107, 155 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107155a0
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