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New tool being developed to
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terial diseases on soybeans,
peppers, peaches and other
University of Delaware plant pathologist Myron Sasser works on system for
selective screening of bacteria that make plants sick. System will help prevent or
control diseases on several major food crops including corn, wheat, soybeans,
and a number of fruits and vegetables.
crops can severely reduce
yields. It’s not unusual, for
example, for entire fields of
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cabbage to be wiped out by
black rot
Yields
on Delaware’s
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identify
profitable pepper crop were - different disease-causing
cut by 90 percent during the bacteria.
1979 growing season because Their idea is to develop a
of another disease, bacterial senes of media on which
leaf spot. samples can be cultured in
Two plant scientists at the the laboratory--each
University of Delaware’s medium specific to one
Experiment Station have particular bactenum and to
been working on a highly nothing else,
selective method for Most of the selective
screening seeds and other media presently used for
plant parts, as well as water bacterial screening just
and soil, for the presence of aren’t choosy enough, ex-
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diseases
plains plapt pathologist
Myron Sasser. On some,
about any bacteria will
grow.
So identification calls for
value judgements on the
part of the individuals doing
tiie screening. The results
sometimes aren’t very
accurate.
“Our goal here at
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