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Studies on the control of potato bacterial seed-piece decay and blackleg with antibiotics

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Treating cut seed potatoes in solutions of streptomycin sulfate or of streptomycin sulfate combined with terramycin hydrochloride is an effective method for reducing the losses from blackleg and from seed-piece decay or missing hills caused byE. atroseptica andP. fluorescens.

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  1. Bonde, Reiner. 1953. Antibiotics. Can they be used to control potato diseases? Maine Farm Res. 1: 18–20. Maine Agr. Exp. Sta.

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  1. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Me.

    Reiner Bonde (Plant Pathologist) & Paulo de Souza (Student Assistant)

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  1. Reiner Bonde
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This project was financed in part by a research grant from Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mr. deSouza was a visiting Student from Brazil, South America.

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Bonde, R., de Souza, P. Studies on the control of potato bacterial seed-piece decay and blackleg with antibiotics. American Potato Journal 31, 311–316 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861599

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