Claim · model-written summary
Shaking a cuprous oxide fungicide by hand from a hessian sack onto potatoes four times in the growing season gave worthwhile control of late blight.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosume1 - Treatment
- shaking a cuprous oxide fungicide by hand from a hessian sack on to the crop four times during the growing seasone1
- Interactor
- late blighte1pathogen
- Outcome
- control of late blighte1
- Direction
- Worthwhilee1
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Verbatim
e1“Worthwhile control of late blight on potatoes was achieved by shaking a cuprous oxide fungicide by hand from a hessian sack on to the crop four times during the growing season”
Title
Fungicidal Control of Plant Diseases in Malawi
D. C. M. Corbett; M. A. Siddiqi International Journal of Pest Management Part B 1966. doi:10.1080/05331846609438411
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