Factors Influencing Lodging in Corn: In Cooperation with Office of Cereal Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture (C

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Excerpt from Factors Influencing Lodging in Corn: In Cooperation With Office of Cereal Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of AgricultureIn Illinois the organism is not usually seed-borne on corn to an important extent. Instead, infection occurs principally from the fungus overwintering on crop refuse on and in the soil. For that reason, up to the season of 1924, infected seed was not used in these studies, but experiments were conducted by inoculating the seed with a pure cul ture of the organism and planting on virgin Soil. At planting time the seed to be inoculated was moistened with a Spore suspension Of the organism. Different strains of corn exhibiting various conditions of seed infection were used.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.