Abstract
De Tempe & Limonard (1965) reported a suppressing effect of high blotter moisture in seed health testing for a number of seed-borne fungal pathogens. The present author proved this to be due to bacterial antagonism, among others by adding antibacterial antibiotics to the blotters.
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Limonard, T. Bacterial antagonism in seed health tests. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 73, 1–14 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02023673
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