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ANOMALOUS amounts of disease in supposedly exactly repeated experiments of flag smut of wheat, and previously with covered smut of barley1, were eventually traced to difference in planting method. Under irrigation in Egypt, these cereals are either broadcast on moist land and ploughed in (herati method) or broadcast on dry land, harrowed in with a wooden baulk and irrigated (afir method).
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JONES, G., NASR, A. Control of Four Smut Diseases by Regulation of Planting Method under Irrigation. Nature 142, 917–918 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142917c0
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