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Soil conditions and root diseases

III. With special reference to colonisation and survival of soil Fusaria in soils treated with micro-elements

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A study has been made on the effects of micro-element amendments on the saprophytic habits of Fusaria.

In all the series of micro-element amendments, the extent and progress of colonisation by species ofFusarium were observed to be markedly diminished, whereas in the unamended control there was 100% colonisation.

The loss of viability ofFusarium vasinfectum from infected cotton stubbles buried in micro-element amended soils was observed to be hastened considerably over the control especially in the case of Al, Li, B, Mn and Zn, Zn being the most efficient.

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  1. University Botany Laboratory, Madras

    C. B. Sulochana

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Communicated by Prof. T. S. Sadasivan,f.a.sc.

Part of a thesis approved for the Degree of Master of Science of the Madras University.

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Sulochana, C.B. Soil conditions and root diseases. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 35, 209–213 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03049949

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