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Excerpt from A Sclerotial Disease of Rice
Recent investigations in plant pathology have shown that a not inconsiderable number of the diseases of plants are to be attributed to the ravages of sclerotial fungi. Considering the habitat of these parasites it is not surprising to find that tuberous crops potato, carrot, beetroot) seem peculiarly liable to attack, the disease in such cases being usually known as root rot. In other cases, however, the host plant is attacked in the seedling stage, the symptoms closely simulating the damping off due to Pythium and its allies. Of sclerotial fungi, which cause such diseases one of the best known is Rhizoctom'a, to which the root rot of many tubers, as well as the damping off of certain seedlings, is to be attributed. There has, however, recently been detected in India a disease of rice, due to the attack of a sclerotial fungus, which seems to present some distino tive feature in its effects upon the host plant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
