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IN certain parts of Bengal considerable rice crop of â ausâ paddy* is damaged, due to the incidence of early flood (July and August) submerging the whole crop when it is about to ripen. So it was considered that â ausâ plants might be made to escape the flood by reducing their life-period by the technique of vernalization. It must be mentioned that among the numerous varieties of â ausâ paddy there is no variety the life-period of which is less than ninety days, and these are usually low yielding. Hence an approach to the problem was made by reducing the life-period to less than ninety days of the existing high-yielding strains by vernalization.
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Hedayetullah, S., and Sen, N. K., Sci. and Culture, 6, No. 11 (1941).
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HEDAYETULLAH, S., GHOSH, B. Vernalization of Rice. Nature 157, 194 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157194a0
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