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control of eastern black nightshade with a fungal pathogen. patent application

  • 출판일1999.03
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  • 서지사항
  • 등록일 2016.11.02
  • 조회수 349
the invention relates to a method of controlling eastern black nightshade by means of infection with a fungal pathogen. the merits for using pathogens to control weeds in annual crops have been discussed previously for various fungal species. a related species, c. malvarum, has been reported by templeton in u.s. patent no. 3,999, 973 as a control for prickly sida (sida spinosa) or teaweed, particularly in soybean and cotton fields. c. malvarum is also pathogenic toward other noncultivated species, including velvetleaf the authors have now discovered a strain of colletotrichum coccodes which is pathogenic toward eastern black nightshade but innocuous toward virtually all crop species. the invention is drawn to the use of this fungus as a mycoherbicide for controlling eastern black nightshade and other susceptible species