Wheat, an important food crop of the world, suffers from a number of diseases which cause a heavy loss to the growers every year. Stem rust (Puccinia graminis tritici Eriks. and Henn.) is one of these serious diseases and it often occurs in an epiphytotic form. It is a common observation that some wheat varieties are very susceptible to a particular rust race and are sometimes completely destroyed while other varieties prove to be resistant. The knowledge of these facts led plant pathologists to realise the importance of resistant varieties and to study the nature of resistance to this disease.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111429 |
| Date | January 1958 |
| Creators | Jain, Abir. C. |
| Contributors | Coulson, J. (Supervisor), 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 | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Biology.) |
| 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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