Diseases and decays of Connecticut tobacco (1940) (20343340244)
Summary
Title: Diseases and decays of Connecticut tobacco
Identifier: diseasesdecaysof00ande (find matches)
Year: 1940 (1940s)
Authors: Anderson, P. J. (Paul Johnson), b. 1884
Subjects: Tobacco
Publisher: (New Haven) : Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation
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134 Connecticut Experiment Station Bulletin 432 virus of ringspot, unlike that of mosaic, is quickly destroyed when the leaves are dried in curing. Hence there is no danger of carrying it to the new crop from the cured leaves of the previous season.
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Figure 23. Ringspot. Continuous lines follow the veins or form rings between them. Since no tobacco plants remain alive over winter in this climate, and all the virus must die out every winter, it is difficult to explain how the disease gets into the fields each year.