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Show Experiment Staff Continues Study On Diseases of Tomatoes Plant pathologists of Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural experiment station are confident they can produce a strain of tomatoes that will resist both "curly top" and bacterial "canker", officials report. Since tomato diseases have proved prov-ed themselves to be the cause of , por inferior crops on Utah farms, members of the experiment station staff, including collaborators of the department of agriculture, have made an effort to insure more and hotter tomatoes in Utah as it la believed Utah has capable farmers and soil which is adapted to production pro-duction of superior tomatoes. The partial control of canker was announced in 1934 when the fermentation process of seed extraction ex-traction was recommended with strict samtary methods of handling young tomato plants. However, to bring about control of the "curly top" ).iroblem the staff has even gone to South America Amer-ica for a solution and it is hoped that soon a tomato can be developed which will be resistant to the disease. dis-ease. Experimental plots at Hurricane, Hur-ricane, Utah, have been used to furnish information concerning the jisease, and trials show that the wild types, the home of which is South America, were more resistant resist-ant than the others. In 1937-38 Dr. L. H Blood, collaborator col-laborator of the department of agriculture ag-riculture with the experiment station, sta-tion, led an expedition into various vari-ous South American countries to collect plants and seeds of the native na-tive tomatoes, and work is being carried cn to develop, the disease-free disease-free strain. |
