Abstract
SEVERAL papers concerning plant diseases appear in a recent number of the Transactions of the British Mycological Society (26, Pts. 1 and 2; April 1943). Measurement of the intensity of plant disease in the field has occupied the attention of a subcommittee of the Society's plant pathology committee. The results indicate some rather suggestive lines of attack in the investigation of several diseases. A graph showing the incidence of potato blight at the Seale Hayne Agricultural College for different years, and for other localities for 1941, is very illuminating. The quick rise to a high degree of infection in 1932 is in marked contrast to the slow development of the disease in 1937, and merits further investigation. Other results are quite as suggestive. The sub-committee's main contribution, however, is in the standardization of methods, details of which are given in the paper.
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Plant Diseases. Nature 152, 425–426 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152425a0