. Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. Bacteriology; Plant diseases. 3o6 BACTERIA IN RELATION TO PLANT DISEASES. The plants did not contract the disease even when the root-system was wounded. Russell also states that the disease does not find its way into the plant through the root-system. vStewart and Harding believe, however, that it may be communicated through the root- system, and this is not at all unlikely in early stages of growth when the tissues are soft. I^ater the woody stem offers an impassable barrier. Potter states that the disease has occurred repeatedly in Northumberland, En
. Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. Bacteriology; Plant diseases. 3o6 BACTERIA IN RELATION TO PLANT DISEASES. The plants did not contract the disease even when the root-system was wounded. Russell also states that the disease does not find its way into the plant through the root-system. vStewart and Harding believe, however, that it may be communicated through the root- system, and this is not at all unlikely in early stages of growth when the tissues are soft. I^ater the woody stem offers an impassable barrier. Potter states that the disease has occurred repeatedly in Northumberland, England, in Swedish turnips, but that he observed it only on the root after it was weh developed and always beginning in a local root-injury of some sort. Infections above ground take place readily through wounded surfaces and the organism which causes the disease may be disseminated by a variety of leaf-eating insects ().. Fig. 104.* + ari â r\ctr't' K,T Kc A9??-Gi-^7 iinnr,^ either by being introduced directly into wounds or nr- and there on the uninjured margins of the leaves subst-i in the manner next to be described. Probably the lea I from the dust of the fields. The disease does not appea,. ;;;;... vrr. .;-. .-.:- .;.-;= T;.-,;-;;rii; ;r, T;r;~r"4 widely through the medium of the air. At least, as already recorded (Farmers' Bulletin, January, 1898) the writer has seen fields nearly free from the disease with only a fence separating them from fields in which half the plants were badly diseased and had been for many weeks, while multitudes of new infections were taking place right and left. This field also contained a multitude of infected weeds (charlock). In hothouse experiments the writer succeeded in transmitting the disease by means of the larvse of the cabbage butterfly iPlusia) and by slugs (Agriolimax). Brenner con- *FlG. 104.âSections of kohlrabi, showing Ijlackcncd vascular bundles due to Bacterium cnmpeslre. Photographed by the writer at Miami, Fl
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