Abstract
OTTO A. REINKING (Philippine Journal of Science, vol. xiii., section A, July, 1918) supplies a list of fungus diseases of Philippine economic plants which will be of value to plant-growers in other tropical areas. The warmth and moisture of the climate account for the great number and destructive-ness of these diseases during the wetter months of the year, and Mr. Reinking estimates that in the province in which he is specially interested at least 10 per cent, of agricultural crops are destroyed by fungi. The great factors in the spread and destruc-tiveness of fungi are the lack of proper culture, of sanitation, of pruning, and of spraying. Many of the plants concerned are widely cultivated in the tropics, and the paper has been written in order to give some idea of the prevalence of plant diseases, their causes, mode of attack, plant hosts, the amount of damage, and also the methods of control. Many of the diseases are due to fungus species new to science. The account is illustrated by twenty-two plates and forty-three text-figures.
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Fungus Diseases of Economic Plants . Nature 103, 354–355 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103354c0
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