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Airborne spores of Tilletia caries as a source of wheat bunt through soil contamination
Author(s) -
YARHAM D. J.,
McKEOWN B. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1989.tb01459.x
Subject(s) - biology , spore , agronomy , crop , contamination , botany , ecology
In 1985 severe bunt was encountered in a crop of wheat grown from organomercury‐treated seed. Circumstantial evidence suggested that the soil had been contaminated by airborne spores of the fungus from a nearby crop which was being harvested at the same time as the affected crop was being sown.