Potato Dry Rot and Gangrene as Soil-borne Diseases

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Jun 1945

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Nature, Volume 155, Issue 3948, pp. 793-794 (1945).

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DRY rot was described as a storage disease of the potato nearly forty years ago1,2, and has since become of increasing economic importance; yet only recently has attention been paid to the soil as a source of infection. The control of the disease obtained by the use of organo-mercury dips at lifting time3and the marked variation in its severity in stocks of the same variety from different farms lent support to the assumption that the causal fungus (Fusarium caeruleum) was soil-borne. No attempt had, however, been made to provide direct experimental evidence of this until last year, when Small4,5 showed that F. caeruleum was often present in the soil adhering to healthy tubers both at lifting time and during storage.

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