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Science 15 July 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3733, pp. 307 - 308
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3733.307
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Fungicide Selective for Basidiomycetes

L. V. Edgington 1, G. S. Walton 1, and P. M. Miller 1

1 Department of Plant Pathology and Botany, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven

Concentrations of 2,3-dihydro-5-carboxanilido-6-methyl-1,4-oxathiin lower than 8 parts per million prevented mycelial growth of a number of Basidiomycetes. By contrast, mycelial growth of various other fungi—Phycomycetes, Ascomycetes, and Deuteromycetes—was 50 percent inhibited only by concentrations of 32 ppm or higher. Two exceptions to this pattern of selective fungitoxicity were found:an isolate of Rhizoctonia solani was not as sensitive as other Basidiomycetes, and the deuteromycete Verticillium alboatrum was inhibited by lower concentrations than affected other fungi in this group. Spore germination of two Basidiomycetes, Uromyces phaseoli and Ustilago nuda, was inhibited 95 percent or more at 10 ppm.

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