Show parasitic fungus growth attacks potatoes beets that finicky fungus known widely as and causing an equally well known disease of potatoes sugar beets and other crops shows differences which may account for some of its eccentricities according to E L leclerg of louisiana isla rila state university as the result of investigations in operation cooperation co I 1 with the united states department of agriculture reported Re potted in the plant disease specialists journal leclerg shows how the from the potato will not attack sug sugi 1 i ar beets whereas the same organ ism 1 sm from sugar beets will attack poi po i 1 investigating further leclerg found that the threads composing compos ingi the body of the sugar beet were appreciably and significantly thicker than those of the potato organism the sugar beet foral also grew faster in laboratory tests and made its best develop development menti around 86 degrees fahrenheit while 1 j the potato form the slower grower developed best at around 77 degrees the sugar beet alloi seemed to be more highly parasitic against other test plants than cioll did I 1 the potato form i |