. Seedling blight and stack-burn of rice and the hot-water seed treatment. Diseased and Healthy Rice Kernels. A, Kernels of Honduras rice, enlarged, showing selerotia on the surface. These kernelswere thoroughly invaded bv this sclerotial form. B, Healthy kernels of the samevariety. Bui. 1116, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate II, ,C*H* -<£ i i. Diseased and Healthy Rice Seedlings and Kernels. At theleft is one healthy seedling of Honduras rice. The remainder of the seedlings are infectedwith fungi, principally the sclerotial form. Note the dark, irregular kernels, which are filledwith scle


. Seedling blight and stack-burn of rice and the hot-water seed treatment. Diseased and Healthy Rice Kernels. A, Kernels of Honduras rice, enlarged, showing selerotia on the surface. These kernelswere thoroughly invaded bv this sclerotial form. B, Healthy kernels of the samevariety. Bui. 1116, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate II, ,C*H* -<£ i i. Diseased and Healthy Rice Seedlings and Kernels. At theleft is one healthy seedling of Honduras rice. The remainder of the seedlings are infectedwith fungi, principally the sclerotial form. Note the dark, irregular kernels, which are filledwith sclerotial tissue. Bui. 1116, U. S. Deot of Agriculture. ? * - / Plate Ml. 4f»s A^ < A iff** k*Jv ?31 ^ liS * if J11 . Individual Rice Kernels, Showing Germination After SurfaceSterilization and Hot-Water Treatment. .4, Two kernels of Honduras rice infected with the sclerotial fungus, from a lot which was surfacesterilized. B, Kernel treated with hot water and sown at the same time as those shown in A. Bui. 1116, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. PLATE IV.


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