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THIS WEEK SPECIAL
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Genetic Vulnerability Committee Urged
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Dr. James F. Tammen and Dr.
George E. Brandow, faculty
members at The Pennsylvania
State University, were among 16
prominent scientists and
educators making a study en
titled “Genetic Vulnerability of
Major Crops,” published recently
by the National Academy of
Sciences, Washington, D.C.
The study was spurred by the
nation’s most recent case of
genetic vulnerability—the 1970
southern corn leaf blight
epidemic that destroyed 15 per
cent of the hybrid com crop
nationwide and as much as 50 per
cent of the crop in some southern
states.
Dr. Tammen is head of the
Department of Plant Pathology
at Penn State and Dr. Brandow is
professor of agricultural
economics. They indicate that the
plant science division of the
College of Agriculture at Penn
State conducts a major research
program pointed toward avoiding
genetic vulnerability of crop
plants.
The national study group
recommended a “complete
watchdog system” to safeguard
the nation against epidemics
posing a potential hazard to
genetically vulnerable crops. The
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report suggests establishment of
a national monitoring committee
“to keep a watchful eye on the
development and production of
major crops and to remain alert
to potential hazards associated
with new or widespread
agricultural practices.”
The com crop of 1970 fell victim
to southern com leaf blight
because of a quirk in technology
that redesigned the corn plants of
America until, in one sense, they
became as alike as identical
twins, the report says.
A single source of cytoplasm,
known as Texas male-sterile
cytoplasm, has been used in
developing the majority of the
com hybrids planted in 1970.
Southern com blight was very
damaging to varieties bearing
the Texas cytoplasm.
The epidemic decreased in
1971, due largely to prompt action
by commercial seed producers in
reintroducing normal cytoplasm
into seed.
Copies of the report, “Genetic
Vulnerability of Major Crops,”
are available from Printing and
Publishing Office, National
Academy of Sciences, 2101
Constitution Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C., 20418. The
price is $7.50 per copy.
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It is likely, Drs. Tammen and
Brandow point out, that genetic
vulnerability was also a factor in
serious epidemics such as the
potato blight that caused the Irish
famine of the 1840’s. In 1917, a
wheat rust epidemic left the
United States with two wheatless
days per week.
Legume Heals
Wounded Earth
A new lespedeza variety that
thrives on poor soils, and holds
great promise as ground cover
for road batiks and strip mining
sites, has been released by the
USDA.
New variety, named Caricea,
was developed in cooperative
research between the Depart
ment’s Agricultural Research
Service (ARS) and the North
Carolina Agricultural Ex
periment Station, Raleigh. Like
common lespedeza, Caricea is a
perennial forage and soil con
servation legume adapted to the
Southeastern U.S. The new
variety owes its extra ground
cover potential to its charac
teristic spreading branch growth
habit with angular, rather than
typical upright, growth of main
stems.
In thick stands, growth of
Caricea is similar to that of
common sericea until branches
are two to three feet high. Then
the branches tend to droop,
forming an extremely dense,
overlapping canopy which
provides tough competition for
weeds due to complete shading.
According to ARS plant
breeder William A. Cope, Caricea
should be at least equal to
common sericea as a forage crop
in terms of forage yield, seed
production and digestibility.
Some certified seed for planting
should be available in the sum
mer of 1973. USDA has no seed for
distribution.
This variety is the result of
over 20 years of research to
dt slop a crop superior to that
nc./ grown. Healing wounds
inflicted on the earth by man and
nature -is emphasized in con
tinuing cooperative efforts by
ARS and State agricultural ex
periment stations.
Cancer is most curable when
it’s caught early and heated
promptly. The American Can
cer Society urges you to have
a health checkup once a year
even if you feel great.
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