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Use Of The Antibiotics, Streptomycin And Terramycin, As Growth Stimulants For Orchid Seedlings., Margaret W. O'Neill
Use Of The Antibiotics, Streptomycin And Terramycin, As Growth Stimulants For Orchid Seedlings., Margaret W. O'Neill
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Antibiotics first came to the public's attention in 1945, when penicillin and streptomycin were released by the United States government to fight human diseases. Later, other antibiotics were released and experimental work was done on control of plant and animal diseases. By 1948 plant pathologists found that certain plant diseases such as walnut blight, tomato and pepper bacterial spot, soft rot, cucumber, downy mildew, chrysanthemum bacterial wilt, and lilac bacterial blight could be controlled by antibiotics.