Improved bunt inoculation of wheat utilizing adventitious shoots

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Abstract
A procedure is described of injecting inoculum of dwarf or common bunt at the bases of the internodes of wheat. Physical stimulation by wounding of the intercalary meristem located above the nodes resulted in the formation of adventitious shoots. If inoculum of dwarf or common bunt is injected at the time of stimulation, the spike of the resulting shoot is usually infected. This procedure shortened the period between teliospore germination and production of sori, gave a high infection rate, and induced several infected spikes on one primary stem.

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