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Alfalfa Breeding, H. M. Tysdal, T. A. Kiesselbach, H. M. Westover
Alfalfa Breeding, H. M. Tysdal, T. A. Kiesselbach, H. M. Westover
Historical Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
Interest in the principles of alfalfa breeding has increased greatly with the growing "forage consciousness" of the country at large and the more specific interest developed through cooperation in the Alfalfa Improvement Conference. As is true of many other forage crops, information on the breeding behavior of alfalfa is meager. During the past few years, however, the genetics and principles of reproduction of this crop have come to be better understood and it is the purpose of this paper to bring together the available information pertaining to the improvement of alfalfa and to add certain suggestions with respect to future …
Stem Blight Of Alfalfa In Utah: A Complex Of Two Distinct Diseases, William E. Rader
Stem Blight Of Alfalfa In Utah: A Complex Of Two Distinct Diseases, William E. Rader
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In 1908, Sackett described for the first time what appeared to be a new bacterial disease of alfalfa in Colorado. To this particular disease he applied the name “stem blight" and attributed the cause to a bacterium, Pseudomonas medicaginis n. sp. For some two decades or more Sackett's work on this disease was accepted. During this time stem blight, which was first thought to be indigenous to the western United State, was reported from nine states east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1933, Johnson and Valleau described a disease of alfalfa, characterized by stem lesions very similar in appearance to …