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THE economic importance of losses in stored apples following the invasion of lenticels by Gloeosporium album and G. perennans has been stressed by Wilkinson1. More recently, it has been shown that losses can be reduced by the use of organic fungicides during the growing season (Montgomery, H. B. S., private communication and ref. 2), or by storing fruits obtained from young trees which have received low applications of nitrogen and are growing on heavy soil under a grass sward (Montgomery, H. B. S., private communication). Complete control might be obtained by eliminating the sources of spores on the trees in the orchard, or by preventing the infection of fruit from the spores normally present on their surface at harvest.
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SPENCER, D., WILKINSON, E. A Method of reducing the Losses caused by Gloeosporium spp. in Stored Apples. Nature 181, 1603–1604 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811603a0
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