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THE CONTROL OF ONION SMUT ( UROCYCTIS CEPULAE ) BY SEED TREATMENT
Author(s) -
CROXALL H. E.,
HICKMAN C. J.
Publication year - 1953
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.1744-7348.1953.tb02375.x
Subject(s) - biology , smut , chemical control , seed treatment , horticulture , agronomy , botany , germination
In field trials near Evesham, Worcestershire, a good control of onion smut was obtained by seed treatment with ferbam and 50 % thiram dusts applied with a resin‐potash sticker. A pentachloronitrobenzene compound also gave some control of the disease but reduced emergence. Greenhouse trials confirmed these results, but there was a fall off in control at high levels of infection. Chloranil and calomel were relatively ineffective and two organo mercury compounds caused serious seed injury.