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- Title
Artificial Production of Ergot in the Tropical Plains of Bengal.
- Authors
SAHA, J. C.; BHATTACHARJEE, S. K.
- Abstract
THE British Ministry of Health in 1941 made an appeal1 for the cultivation within the Commonwealth of ergot, supplies of which had come hitherto from Central Europe, Spain and Portugal, where it occurs naturally. Wales and certain west coast places in England, and New South Wales, have taken up trial cultivation with a certain degree of success. English results are not definitely known; but the Australian ergot has an 'alkaloid content well above the minimum standard provided in B.P., i.e. 0.05 per cent'2. In India, the Madras Agricultural Department3 has taken up its experimental cultivation in the Nilgiri Hills and the produce has a similar alkaloid content.
- Publication
Nature, 1945, Vol 156, Issue 3960, p363
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/156363a0