Letters to Editor
nature 161, 320-321 (28 February 1948) | doi:10.1038/161320b0
Treatment of Apple Canker Lesions with Plant-growth Substances
S. H. CROWDY
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GIVEN that the formation and spread of a canker depends on the balance between the growth of the pathogen and the regeneration of the host, a substance which stimulates wound healing may prove as effective in combating the disease as one which aims at suppressing the pathogen. A number of the chemicals known as plant-growth substances stimulate callus formation, and it is possible that some of these may also suppress the development of the pathogen.
