[The influence of biological seed treaters against cereal diseases and on grain yield]
2000
Semaskiene, R. | Dabkevicius, Z. (Lithuanian Inst. of Agriculture, Dotnuva (Lithuania))
Until recently, the diseases have largerly been controlled by chemical seed treatment, but as concern for the environment increases, more attention is being given to alternative methods as biological control by antagonistic microorganisms. One of the main objectives of this work was to search for antagonistic fungi and bacteria to control seed-borne diseases of cereals. Studies were done in field plots at the Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture from 1994 to 1997. When seeds of winter wheat were coated with biological seed treaters, the incidence of bunt did not differ from the untreated control. Biological seed treaters did not have any effect on grain yield of cereals, because the increase or decrease of grain yield wasn not significant
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