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Bunt Or Stinking Smut In Wheat
Wheat is subject to smut diseases and an unusually heavy incidence of Bunt or Stinking Smut was seen in parts of the district last season. The disease begins with seed born spores and becomes visible at seed development. Infection spreads at harvest and can be reduced by seed treatment before sowing using dry dusts of Copper or Mercuric compounds or hexachlorobenze. Loose Smut and Flag Smut are discussed, noting that there is no practical seed treatment for Loose Smut and the main control is using seed from disease free crops. A hot water seed treatment is used in early seed lots for pure seed. A follow up article on Flag Smut will appear next Tuesday.
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