Evidence to show that rusted wheat can fix elementary nitrogen was reported by d'Oliveira in 1939. If this be true the infection of this host by this parasite would have the rare property of fixing nitrogen in common with mycorrhiza, leguminous plants infected with root nodule bacteria and the few other possible associations. The fact that there is a short initial mutualistic symbiosis between rust and wheat makes this possibility of nitrogen fixation by the rusted wheat not entirely unlikely. However, d'0liveira's studies were admittedly preliminary ones, in which he used the Kjeldahl method of nitrogen analysis. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.117614 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Ellis, C. R. |
| Contributors | Pelletier, R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Plant Pathology. ) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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