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Notes on basal rot of narcissus: III. Eradication of the disease from narcissus stocks by repeated use of formalin in the hot‐water bath
Author(s) -
Hawker Lilian E.
Publication year - 1944
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1944.tb06204.x
Subject(s) - narcissus , biology , horticulture , botany , toxicology , zoology
Stocks of narcissi infected with Fusarium bulbigenum were divided into two parts, of which one was given the standard hot‐water treatment and the other was hot‐water treated with the addition of 0.5% formalin to the water. Some stocks were lifted the following season and the treatment was repeated. With most stocks a single application of formalin was sufficient to reduce the amount of disease to negligible proportions, but with one heavily infected stock a second treatment was necessary.