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Science 19 December 1980:
Vol. 210. no. 4476, pp. 1365 - 1367
DOI: 10.1126/science.210.4476.1365
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Ratoon Stunting Disease of Sugarcane: Isolation of the Causal Bacterium

MICHAEL J. DAVIS 1, A. GRAVES GILLASPIE JR. 2, RUSSELL W. HARRIS 2, and ROGER H. LAWSON 2

1 Department of Plant Pathology, Cook College, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 08903
2 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705

A small coryneform bacterium was consistently isolated from sugarcane with ratoon stunting disease and shown to be the causal agent. A similar bacterium was isolated from Bermuda grass. Both strains multiplied in sugarcane and Bermuda grass, but the Bermuda grass strain did not incite the symptoms of ratoon stunting disease in sugarcane. Shoot growth in Bermuda grass was retarded by both strains.

Submitted on July 10, 1980
Revised on September 22, 1980


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