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Control of Bacterial Stalk Rot of Corn by Chlorination of Water in Sprinkler Irrigation 1
Author(s) -
Thompson D. L.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1965.0011183x000500040027x
Subject(s) - agricultural experiment station , crop , sowing , library science , citation , stalk , irrigation , agricultural science , agriculture , agronomy , biology , horticulture , computer science , ecology
D. L. Thompson BACTERIAL stalk rot (3) which causes damage to corn (Zea mays L.) after sprinkler irrigation with water from farm ponds often occurs in North Carolina and other areas. Affected plants soften rapidly and decay and stem and leaf tissues collapse. Plants usually die, but if only a small portion of a plant is affected it will remain standing. Total damage is generally slight because only a small percentage of plants become infected, apparently at random. In some fields, however, large percentages of plants have been lost. The loss of relatively few plants in research, demonstration, and other valuable plantings can be very serious. Sabet et al. (4) compared the North Carolina causal organisms with isolates causing bacterial stalk rot of maize in Egypt and concluded that there were no signifi-