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Symptoms And Treatment Of Copper Deficiency Of Wheat, J W. Gartrell, R. F. Brennan, A. D. Robson Jan 1979

Symptoms And Treatment Of Copper Deficiency Of Wheat, J W. Gartrell, R. F. Brennan, A. D. Robson

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

Copper deficiency in wheat is still common but may not be easily noticed.


Variation In Leaf Anatomy In Ten Selected Species Of Carex (Cyperaceae) Representing Three Subgeneric Sections (Bracteosae, Multiflorae, And Squarrosae), Marion Rae Mallory Jan 1979

Variation In Leaf Anatomy In Ten Selected Species Of Carex (Cyperaceae) Representing Three Subgeneric Sections (Bracteosae, Multiflorae, And Squarrosae), Marion Rae Mallory

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Leaves of Carex (Cyperaceae) representing three subgeneric sections were collected from wide spread localities and observed for anatomical variation. Among the quantitative characters evaluated were, epidermal cell height, width, and number per unit area, bulliform cell height and width, ai r cavity length, width, and number per unit area, and number of stomata per unit area. some descriptive anatomical characters were leaf and keel shape, air cavity shape, sclerenchyma pattern, vascular bundle location, presence or absence of a hypodermis, nature of the mesophyll, silica body shape and location, presence or absence of epidermal projections, stomatal pattern, and subsidiary cell shape.


Proceedings Of The 6th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 13-15, 1979, Hot Springs, Arkansas): Healthy Beans, A Key To Profit Jan 1979

Proceedings Of The 6th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 13-15, 1979, Hot Springs, Arkansas): Healthy Beans, A Key To Profit

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Schedule, Committees, Officers

The Gold That Grows, John Stephens

IPM Program, Joe Good

The Role of the Ag Consultant - Dick Jensen

Seed Quality, Ron Hager

Nematode-Economic Threshold, Don Schmitt

Problems of Marketing Foliar Fungicides, Gordon Elliott and Nic Thomas

Results of Point System in Determining Application Time, Billy Moore

Disease Loss Report, R. V. Sturgeon

Seed Treatment Report, M. C. McDaniel

SSDW Financial Status Report, Sid Stephens

Update of FIFRA and RPAR, Curtis L. Mason

Needs and Effects of a Foliar Fungicide - B. C. Smale

The Effect of Bean Pod Mottle, Soybean Mosaic and Bean Yellow Mosaic …


Lake Itasca State Park Myxomycetes: An Annotated Checklist, M. E. Palm, E. L. Stewart, E. F. Haskins Jan 1979

Lake Itasca State Park Myxomycetes: An Annotated Checklist, M. E. Palm, E. L. Stewart, E. F. Haskins

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A lack of published information regarding Minnesota Myxomycetes prompted attempts to document species from Lake Itasca State Park in Clearwater county, in the northwest part of the state. Seventy-five species are herein recorded from 341 collections made during the years 1959, 1971,and 1975-78.


Bacteriocin-Like Substances Produced By Rhizobium Japonicum And Other Slow-Growing Rhizobia, D. C. Gross, A. K. Vidaver Dec 1978

Bacteriocin-Like Substances Produced By Rhizobium Japonicum And Other Slow-Growing Rhizobia, D. C. Gross, A. K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Bacteriocin-like substances were commonly produced by slow-growing Rhizobium japonicum and cowpea rhizobia on an L-arabinose medium. Antagonism between strains of R. japonicum was not detected in vitro; however, such strains were often sensitive to some bacteriocins produced by cowpea rhizobia. Inhibitory zones (2 to 8 mm from colony margins), produced by 58 of 66 R. japonicum test strains, were reproducibly detected with Corynebacterium nebraskense as an indicator. Quantitative production was not related to symbiotic properties of effective strains, since nine noninfective strains and one ineffective strain produced bacteriocin. Eight R. japonicum strains that did not produce bacteriocin nevertheless formed effective …


Results Of The Eighth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1976, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, J. W. Schmidt Jul 1978

Results Of The Eighth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1976, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, J. W. Schmidt

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This is the eighth report of results from an International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery (IWWPN) organized in 1968 by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the Science and Education Administration (SEA), U.S. Department of Agriculture, under a contract with the Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State. The Nursery was designed to (1) test the adaptation and stability of winter wheat cultivars in a range of latitudes, daylengths, fertility conditions, water management regimes, and disease complexes; (2) identify superior winter cultivars to serve as recipient genotypes for high protein and high lysine genes, (3) test the degree of expression …


Results Of The First High Protein-High Lysine Wheat Observation Nursery Grown In 1975, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern Apr 1978

Results Of The First High Protein-High Lysine Wheat Observation Nursery Grown In 1975, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This is the first report of results from a high protein-high lysine observation (HP-HL) nursery organized in 1974 by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under a contract with the Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State. Primary objectives of this nursery are to: (1) Systematically provide breeders and cooperators with superior genetic germplasm for elevated levels of protein and/or lysine. (2) Test the degree of expression of the high protein and high lysine traits in a diverse array of environments.


Simple Procedure For Disruption Of Fungal Spores, James L. Van Etten, Shelby Freer Mar 1978

Simple Procedure For Disruption Of Fungal Spores, James L. Van Etten, Shelby Freer

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

A simple, inexpensive method for disrupting dormant fungal spores is described.


The Potential For Avocados In Western Australia, Michael Gregory Hawson Jan 1978

The Potential For Avocados In Western Australia, Michael Gregory Hawson

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

"The flesh of the ripe fruit is ivory yellow, framed in a surround of exquisite green"

There is only one fruit to which this comment can apply and that is the avocado.

While now regarded as a luxury, avocados have met ready demand on major markets indicating that limited expansion of avocado growing in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australiacouldmprovide quite profitable returns.


Progress In Clover Scorch Research, A Bokor, D. L. Chatel, D. A. Nicholas Jan 1978

Progress In Clover Scorch Research, A Bokor, D. L. Chatel, D. A. Nicholas

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

Considerable progress has been made with the clover scorch problem since the devastation of the 971 epidemic when intensive research began.

Over 2000 varieties and crossbreds of subterranean clover from various collections have been screened for resistance resulting in the release of the first resistant clover, Esperance, this year.

Benefits of fungicidal spraying have been demonstrated and low cost spraying programmes for grazed pastures, and seed and hay crops are under field investigation.


Bulletin No 3573 - Wheat Diseases In Western Australia, A. G. P. Brown, G. C. Mac Nish Jan 1978

Bulletin No 3573 - Wheat Diseases In Western Australia, A. G. P. Brown, G. C. Mac Nish

Bulletins - 3000 - 3999

Diseases caused by pathogenic organisms can seriously affect the yield of wheat. Some diseases are comparatively rare whereas others occur over a large area of the wheatbelt year after year.

it is important to be able to identify diseases correctly so that the appropriate control measures can be applied, In the following article the diseases of wheat caused by pathogenic organisms are illustrated, with their symptoms described, and where possible, the control measures given.


Proceedings Of The 5th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 21-23, 1978, Fort Walton Beach, Florida): 3 P'S In A Pod - Policies, Protection, Production Jan 1978

Proceedings Of The 5th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 21-23, 1978, Fort Walton Beach, Florida): 3 P'S In A Pod - Policies, Protection, Production

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Farm Policies, Weldon Barton (Assistant US Secretary of Agriculture)

World Soybean Problems, Glen Whitney, Dick Ford, and Frank Ray

Interrelation of Governmental Agencies with Industry, University, and Soybean Producers
EPA: Relationship and Responsibility to Agriculture and the Public, Nathan Chandler
EPA: Problems and Requirements of Registration, Herb Harrison
State: Pesticide Impact Program, Charles Smith
Industry: View on Benefit and Risk of the Pesticide Business, Charles Gilbert
University: Role of Land Grant University in Pesticide Development, James Martin
Producer: What's Needed, "Profit or Perish," Peter Myers

DBCP Status Report and Other Nematicides
Shell Chemical, Max Sckerl
Dow Chemical, Walter Miller …


Vascular Vegetation And Flora Of Remnant Forest In The Ohio River Floodplain Between The Great Kanawha And Big Sandy Rivers, West Virginia, John Carl Furry Jan 1978

Vascular Vegetation And Flora Of Remnant Forest In The Ohio River Floodplain Between The Great Kanawha And Big Sandy Rivers, West Virginia, John Carl Furry

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

A total of 246 species of vascular plants representing 75 families were recorded from six physiographically defined forest types in the Ohio River floodplain between the Greet Kanawha end Big Sandy Rivers, West Virginia. Distinct woodlands were those associated with the River flats, River front, bottoms of secondary streams, stream banks, the high floodplain end swamps. Only two species, Acer saccharinum and Platenus occidentalis representing 0.81 percent of the total species encountered, were present in all forest types; 105 species (42.7 percent) were restricted to one forest type. Fifty-five species were new additions to the flora of one or more …


Purification Of Some Legume Carlaviruses, Venkateswarlu Veerisetty, Myron K. Brakke Jan 1978

Purification Of Some Legume Carlaviruses, Venkateswarlu Veerisetty, Myron K. Brakke

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Purification schemes were developed which yielded 0.7 to 1.0 mg of alfalfa latent virus (ALV) and pea streak virus (PSV) and 0.1 to 0.3 mg of red clover vein mosaic virus (RCVMV) per gram pea cullivar Lincoln plant tissue (excluding roots). The freezing of the tissue and the use of an appropriate extraction buffer were crucial. Virus from sap was precipitated by 6%(w/v) polyethylene glycol (PEG, MW 6,000) and concentrated by two cycles of differential centrifugation. Partially purified virus preparations had a single nucleoprotein component in rate-zonal sucrose and equilibrium cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation. The virus preparations did not …


A Study Of Vascular Plants On Rock Outcrops In Southwestern West Virginia, Sheila Kay Adkins Zeto Jan 1978

A Study Of Vascular Plants On Rock Outcrops In Southwestern West Virginia, Sheila Kay Adkins Zeto

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

A total of 223 species of vascular plants representing 66 families were collected from rock outcrops at five study sites in Cabell, Wayne and Lincoln Counties, southwestern West Virginia. Eighteen species (8.07 percent) were present at all five sites with little regard for site conditions. One hundred seventeen species (52,4 percent) were restricted to only one of the five sites. The outcrop flora included nine species (5.03 percent) that are considered introduced elements, Forty-eight species were new additions to the flora of one or more of the counties studied, Floristic similarity coefficients of five sites range .from .347 to .512. …


Nitrogen Fixation (Acetylene Reduction) Associated With Roots Of Winter Wheat And Sorghum In Nebraska, Wayne L. Pedersen, K. Chakrabarty, R. V. Klucas, Anne K. Vidaver Jan 1978

Nitrogen Fixation (Acetylene Reduction) Associated With Roots Of Winter Wheat And Sorghum In Nebraska, Wayne L. Pedersen, K. Chakrabarty, R. V. Klucas, Anne K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Root segments and root-soil cores (6.5-cm diameter) from fields and nurseries of winter wheat and sorghum were tested for N2 fixation by using the acetylene reduction assay. Wheat samples (~1,200) from 109 sites generally had low or no activity (0 to 3.1 nmol of C2H4 produced per h per g [dry weight] of root segments), even after 24 h of incubation. However, a commercial field of Scout 66, located in western Nebraska, exhibited appreciable activity (290 nmol of C2H4 produced per h per g [dry weight] of root segments). Of 400 sorghum lines …


Purification Of Some Legume Carlaviruses, Venkateswarlu Veerisetty, Myron K. Brakke Jan 1978

Purification Of Some Legume Carlaviruses, Venkateswarlu Veerisetty, Myron K. Brakke

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Purification schemes were developed which yielded 0.7 to 1.0 mg of alfalfa latent virus (ALV) and pea streak virus (PSV) and 0.1 to 0.3 mg of red clover vein mosaic virus (RCVMV) per gram pea cullivar Lincoln ) plant tissue (excluding roots). The freezing of the tissue and the use of an appropriate extraction buffer were crucial. Virus from sap was precipitated by 6%(w/v) polyethylene glycol (PEG, MW 6,000) and concentrated by two cycles of differential centrifugation. Partially purified virus preparations had a single nucleoprotein component in rate-zonal sucrose and equilibrium cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation. The virus preparations did …


Results Of The Seventh International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1975, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, J. W. Schmidt Oct 1977

Results Of The Seventh International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1975, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, J. W. Schmidt

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This is the seventh report of results from an International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery (IWWPN) organized in 1968 by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under a contract with the Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State. The Nursery was designed to (1) test the adaptation of winter wheat cultivars in a range of latitudes, daylengths, fertility conditions, water management regimes, and disease complexes; (2) identify superior winter cultivars to serve as recipient genotypes for high protein and high lysine genes, and (3) test the degree of expression and stability of …


Multiple Forms Of Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Dependent Ribonucleic Acid Polymerase In Barley Leaves (Hordeum Vulgare L.), Sachchidananda Javali May 1977

Multiple Forms Of Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Dependent Ribonucleic Acid Polymerase In Barley Leaves (Hordeum Vulgare L.), Sachchidananda Javali

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Ribonucleic acid polymerases (E.C. 2.7.7.6) have been solubilized form whole green leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Three major forms of the solubilized enzyme have been isolated by sonication in high ionic strength buffers, cation and anion exchange chromatography, and agarose gel permeation chromatography and designated I, II, and III. The enzyme fractions appear analogous to the Class I, II, and III ribonucleic acid polymerases defined in other eucaryotic systems. The ionic strength optima, amatoxin sensitivity, and relative activities with denatured calf thymus deoxyribonucleic acid were different for Class I, II, and III polymerases.

A simple, rapid, reproducible method …


In Vitro Morphogenesis And Mutation Of Glycine Max L., Thomas Daniel Wilson May 1977

In Vitro Morphogenesis And Mutation Of Glycine Max L., Thomas Daniel Wilson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Soybean (Glycine max L. c.v. Consoy) tissue cultures were grown in synthetic media containing various concentrations and combinations of minerals, auxins, cytokinins, pH levels, and inorganic growth factors in a systematic procedure to establish optimum media for initiation and maintenance of callus. Further modification of the hormone level was employed to initiate callus morphogenesis. Normally toxic levels of atrazine were established in soybean calli media, and ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) and X ray-induced mutant calli were selected for atrazine tolerance.

Optimal media for initiation and maintenance of soybean calli were developed and a defined medium was determined that consistently yields …


Alfalfa Latent Virus, A Naturally Occurring Carlavirus In Alfalfa, Yenkateswarlu Veerisetty, Myron K. Brakke Jan 1977

Alfalfa Latent Virus, A Naturally Occurring Carlavirus In Alfalfa, Yenkateswarlu Veerisetty, Myron K. Brakke

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Alfalfa latent virus (ALV), a new member of the carlavirus group, was isolated From alfalfa (Medicago sarivo) clones from rbe University of Nebraska experimental plots and from the Farmers' fields. The pea aphid, Acvrihosiphon pisum, transmitted this virus to M. sativa, Pisum sativum, and Viria faba. but not to Trifolium pratense. It was also sap transmissible to V. faba, V. villoso, and P. sarivum, but was not seed-borne in P. sariuum. In V. Jaba sap ALV was infectious at 65 but not at 70 C in 10 min. or …


Cotton Fireweed : Potential Poison : Research Roundup, J Dickson, R. Hill Jan 1977

Cotton Fireweed : Potential Poison : Research Roundup, J Dickson, R. Hill

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

Although long known as a potential toxic species because of its content, and although it is widely distribuited in all Australian States, cotton fireweed has not generally been consdidered toxic because it is unpalatable and not usually eaten by stock.

In 1973 cattle deaths occured near Ravensthorpe which led to research into Senecio quadridentatus (cotton fireweed).

The plant must be seen as a potential toxic species in situations where the lack of other feed forces cattle to eat the normally unpalatable cotton fireweed.


Septoria Diseases Of Wheat, A. G. P. Brown Jan 1977

Septoria Diseases Of Wheat, A. G. P. Brown

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

The Effect of Septoria nodorum on Yield of 125 Wheat Cultivars. The aim of this experiment was as described for that of 1976. There were some modifications to the treatments which were as follows: (a) Most of the cultivars were 'new' and (b) Three levels of Septoria attack were set up:- 1. Low: cover sprayed throughout the season with the fungicide Difolatan. 2. Moderate: inoculated with Septoria three times, followed at heading out by cover spraying with Difolatan. 3. Severe: inoculated four times no fungicide. The 125 entries were sown as hill plots with the three Septoria environments as main …


1977 Summary Of Results Of Field Experiments (January 1978), D L. Chatel Jan 1977

1977 Summary Of Results Of Field Experiments (January 1978), D L. Chatel

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

1. Inoculation. 1.1. High rainfall. 1.2. Low rainfall. 2. Clover Scorch. 3. Rye grass toxicity. LIST OF EXPERIMENTS 1. The responses of varieties of Trifolium yanninicum to inoculation with different strains of rhizobia - Denmark. 2. The response of T. yanninicum to inoculation over two growing seasons - Denmark. 3. The response of white and strawberry clovers to inoculation - Denmark. 4. The response of sub clover to inoculation - spaced row trial - Merredin. 5. The response of sub clover to inoculation - plot trial (Not sampled) - Merredin. 6. The response of sub clover to inoculation - spaced …


Sedimentation Coefficients Of The Virions Of Soil-Borne Wheat Mosaic Virus, Myron K. Brakke Jan 1977

Sedimentation Coefficients Of The Virions Of Soil-Borne Wheat Mosaic Virus, Myron K. Brakke

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

The sedimentation coefficient of virion I of soil-borne wheat mosaic virus was estimated to be 219S, the same, within error, as the sedimentation coefficient of the dimer of virion II, estimated to be 218S. The monomer of virion II sedimented at 177S, and was 138 nm long. Another strain of the virus had a virion II (designated lIb) that was 92 nm long and sedimented at 159S. The two virus strains coexist in some fields.


Results Of The Sixth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1974, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, J. W. Schmidt Dec 1976

Results Of The Sixth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1974, K. D. Wilhelmi, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, J. W. Schmidt

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This is the sixth report of results from an International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery (IWWPN) organized in 1968 by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, under a contract with the Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State. The Nursery was designed to (1) test the adaptation of winter wheat cultivars in a range of latitudes, daylengths, fertility conditions, water management, and disease complexes; (2) identify superior winter cultivars to serve as recipient genotypes for high protein and high lysine genes, and (3) test the degree of expression and stability of …


Report On Wastewater Disposal To Board Of County Commissioners, Clark County Nevada, Clair N. Sawyer Oct 1976

Report On Wastewater Disposal To Board Of County Commissioners, Clark County Nevada, Clair N. Sawyer

Publications (WR)

This report is concerned with the management of waste-waters and subsurface drainage from the City of Las Vegas and its environs and the BMI complex, all in Clark County, Nevada. The prime objective is to recommend a plan of action which will utilize the natural resources of the area in the least costly manner and still protect Lake Mead for recreational purposes and use as a public water supply, At this writing, conditions in the upper Las Vegas arm of Boulder Basin are quite unsatisfactory for some recreational purposes due to the extensive blooms of algae which develop. Experience at …


Comparative Properties Of Bacteriophage Φ6 And Φ6 Nucleocapsid, James L. Van Etten, Les Lane, Carlos Gonzalez, James Partridge, Anne Vidaver May 1976

Comparative Properties Of Bacteriophage Φ6 And Φ6 Nucleocapsid, James L. Van Etten, Les Lane, Carlos Gonzalez, James Partridge, Anne Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Nonionic detergent treatments released a nucleocapsid from the enveloped bacteriophage φ6. The nucleocapsid sedimented at nearly the same rate as the whole phage in sucrose density gradients, but the buoyant density in Cs2SO4 changed from 1.22 g/cm3 for the whole phage to 1.33 g/cm3 for the nucleocapsid. The detergent completely removed the lipid and 5 of the 10 proteins from the phage. Surface labeling of the phage and nucleocapsid with 125I revealed that protein P3 was on the outer surface of the whole phage and P8 was on the surface of the nucleocapsid. Both …


Results Of The Fifth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1973, J. E. Stroike, K. D. Wilhelmi, V. A. Johnson, J. W. Schmidt, P. J. Mattern Apr 1976

Results Of The Fifth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1973, J. E. Stroike, K. D. Wilhelmi, V. A. Johnson, J. W. Schmidt, P. J. Mattern

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This is the fifth report of results from an International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery (IWWPN) organized in 1968 by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, under a contract with the Agency for International Development, U. S. Department of State. The Nursery was designed to (1) test the adaptation of winter wheat cultivars in a range of latitudes, daylengths, fertility conditions, water management, and disease complexes; (2) identify superior winter cultivars to serve as recipient genotypes for high protein and high lysine genes, and (3) test the degree of expression and stability …


Bulletin No 3863 - Plants Which Cause Kimberley Horse Disease, A. L. Payne Apr 1976

Bulletin No 3863 - Plants Which Cause Kimberley Horse Disease, A. L. Payne

Bulletins - 3000 - 3999

Crotalaria crispata and Crotalaria retusa (Rattlepod), two plants responsible for Kimberley horse disease*, are, unfortunately, fairly widespread throughout the Kimberleys. Both species are apparently toxic in all stages of growth.

This bulletin is to assist pastoralists to:-

• Identify the two plants;

• Recognise the type of country and conditions under which they grow; and

• Locate horse paddocks on country where the plants are least likely to occur.