Thoughts About Bug In Wheat
“It is possible that work of this type may lead to prevention of bug damage or to minimising its effect,” the director of the Wheat Be- ( search Institute, Mr R. W. Cawley, said at a meeting of the Wheat Research Committee this week. He was reporting on investigations into , the mechanism of bug damage in flour. “Bug damage is so relatively common in New Zea- ; land that we should do some- , thing about it,” he said. Mr Cawley said in his report that the recent observation by Dr F. R. Sanderson, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lincoln, of endemic infection of New Zealand wheats with Fusarium nivale, together with their work on bug damage, had prompted the speculation that the marked
extensibility of doughs made from New Zealand wheats might be caused by some low level endemic infection producing changes similar tn low levels of bug attack. It was planned to investigate this theory after further elucidation of bug action, when methods would have been better established.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 10
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