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- Title
BACTERIAL DISEASE IN WHEAT BULB FLY LARVAE.
- Authors
Hamid, S.
- Abstract
The article studies the bacterial disease in wheat bulb fly larvae. Records were kept of the number and condition of the wheat bulb fly larvae in samples of plants from five field trials conducted in the Advisory Service Eastern Region to investigate various aspects of this pest. The seed in all the trials received an organomercury seed dressing and some trials also received insecticidal seed dressing or the plots were sprayed in early March. A total of 992 larvae was dissected from 2,755 tillers of 1,519 cereal plants. Thirty-five per cent of these were diseased. Most of the plants from which diseased larvae were obtained were found to be contaminated by one or more Fusarium spp. A culture made from a diseased larva grew species of Penicillium and Fusarium together with some colonies of bacteria. Since neither of these fungi has been recorded as entomophthorous, attention was focused on the bacteria.
- Subjects
WHEAT bulb fly; NARCISSUS bulb fly; BACTERIAL diseases of plants; PLANT diseases; FUSARIUM; PARASITIC plants
- Publication
Plant Pathology, 1966, Vol 15, Issue 4, p167
- ISSN
0032-0862
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3059.1966.tb00343.x