WHEAT RUST
PROBLEM IN -AUSTRALIA DISCOVERY OF NEW STRAIN. VANCOUVER, June 8. (Received June 9, at 5.5 p.m.) Addressing the Science Congress today Dr W. L. Waterhouse, of Sydney, said that, compared with the complexity of the problem in America in combating cereal rust, the situation in Australia was simple, as only seven different strains of wheat stem rust were .found. All but one were peculiar to Australia, and this one, which had been recently discovered, was known in other countries and had superseded the other six. No Australian wheats were resistant to this form of rust, and the plant breeding problem in Australia had been profoundly affected in consequence. Dr Waterhouse emphasised the desirability of standardisation in the technique followed in each country ' which studied t(ie problem in order that a form of rust in one country might be known by the same name in another.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 11
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