Abstract
IN the Central Provinces and Berar and other regions in peninsular India, recurrent damage is caused to the wheat crop by black stem rust, Puccinia graminis tritici. In some years, as in 1946, the destruction of the crop is so great as to result in an acute shortage of seed. To investigate the possibility of utilizing the shrunken grain produced by the rust-affected crop, as seed, germination, tests of, and experiments to observe the effect on yield of sowing, such grain were carried out.
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EKBOTE, R., SAHASRABUDDHE, K. Shrivelled Wheat Grain from Rust-Affected Crop as Seed. Nature 161, 442 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161442a0
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