Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from News Letter, Vol. 6: June, 1931
The scab disease was found generally in greater or less amounts in all the Lima bean growing sections visited, in several cases with pod ihfections reaching above 75 per cent. The disease appears to be Spread to a considerable extent by the wind and is probably carried over the intercrop period on either live or dead plant refuse, or on escaped Lima bean plants which are not numerous. So far as known, it is confined to Lima beans; there is reason to think the morphologically similar fungus on Canavalia Sp. May be distinct from that on Lima beans. Spraying at frequent intervals is being tried experimentally in Cuba with some promise of success.
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