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

1965

Seed treatment

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Vegetable Seed Treatments, G C. Macnish Jan 1965

Vegetable Seed Treatments, G C. Macnish

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

Many common vegetable diseases can be carried over from one crop to the next by means of contaminated seed.

The use of such seed also results in contamination of the soil with the disease-causing organisms.

Prevention or control of seed-bome diseases can be achieved by the use of appropriate chemical or hot water treatments.