DISEASE IN FLAX PLANTS.
SCIENTISTS TO INVESTIGATE. [BT TELBGBAFH. —PBE3S ASSOCIATION.] PAT.TvtKRSTON NORTH, Thursday. The Science Congress to-day discnssed the yellow leaf disease in flax. Mr. Alfred Cockayne said the disease was fungus attacking the roots causing complete ' cessation of absorption of water. If an antidote was not discovered the whole flax area would be extinct in a few years. He advocated root examination of all types of flax and the growth of such plants as appeared to be immune, to discover if they really were so or not. If they were immune the difficulty would bo overcome. There were encouraging signs that immune plants would be found, but the investigations would be slow, and by the time they were completed, there might be no flax industry. Dr. Tilyard urged that a committee of millers and scientists be set up to form a biological station to investigate the disease. This course was agreed upon, the scientists appointed being Dr. Tilyard, Messrs. Alfred Cockayne, and Waters, and the flaxmillers Messrs. Ross, Siefert, and Bell.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17691, 28 January 1921, Page 5
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173DISEASE IN FLAX PLANTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17691, 28 January 1921, Page 5
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