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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

1979

Disease resistance

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Breeding A Barley Resistant To Leaf Disease, T N. Khan, P. A. Portmann Jan 1979

Breeding A Barley Resistant To Leaf Disease, T N. Khan, P. A. Portmann

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

In the last few years the Department of Agriculture has begun a programme to produce brley varieties resistant to the leaf diseases, scald and net blotch. These diseases cause substantial losses that may not be apparent to an individual farmer.