Progress of Fight Against Plant Diseases
EMPIRE MYCOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 13,
The third Imperial Myeologicul Conference, held every five years, and attended by delegates from all tho Dominions and many colonial Governments, opened at South Kensington yesterday, when reports of the progress of the light against plant diseases carried on from the Imperial Mycologies! Institute at Kew were presented. Each part of the Empire joins in providing the necessary finance. The importance of the work of the institute is shown by estimates that virus diseases of potatoes in Great Britain, excluding the Irish Free State, cause a .wastage of £4,000,000 yearly. The losses in Australia from crop diseases, excluding insects, was estimated at £7,000,000 in 1920. Cereal rusts arc believed to cost the world £100,000,000 yearly. The work of the institute lias been well maintained during the past five years, and a special study was undertaken of mould fungi.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 221, 21 September 1934, Page 8
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