Cereal Diseases

Abstract

THE important place of cereals in the war-time food production programme, and the urgency of increasing both acreages and yields, have inevitably thrown into prominence the problems of failure and loss through disease. A good deal of attention has been given to these problems during the war years, and the time is appropriate to take stock of the position. For this purpose the Association of Applied Biologists recently devoted one of its general meetings to a symposium on cereal diseases, which was held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, with the president, Prof. W. Brown, in the chair.