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Inheritance of Resistance to Root Rot in Tobacco Caused by Thielavia Basicola 1
Author(s) -
McIlvaine T. C.,
Garber R. J.
Publication year - 1936
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1936.00021962002800040004x
Subject(s) - agricultural experiment station , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , west virginia , resistance (ecology) , agriculture , horticulture , political science , library science , geography , biology , agronomy , computer science , archaeology , biochemistry , gene
D URING the past several years the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, in cooperation with the Division of Tobacco and Plant Nutrition, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, has had under way a project to produce by hybridization and selection a strain of Burley tobacco resistant to root rot caused by Thielavia basicola. Incidental to this investigation certain data pertaining to inheritance of disease resistance was obtained. The purpose of this paper is to present these data, together with a brief discussion of them. Studies by Johnson and Hartman (~)~ and by Johnson (2,3) shown the importance of various environmental factors in the development of root rot in tobacco as well as the feasibility of breeding tobacco resistant to this disease.