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Selected References

Boewe, G.H. 1949. Late season incidence of Stewart's disease on sweet corn and winter temperatures in Illinois, 1944-1948. Plant Dis. Reporter 33:192-194.

Braun, E.J. 1982. Ultrastructural investigation of resistant and susceptible maize inbreds infected with Erwinia stewartii. Phytopathology 72:159-166.

Crabb, A.R. 1947. The Hybrid-Corn Makers: Prophets of Plenty. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.

Dodd, J. L. 1980. The role of plant stress in the development of corn stalk rots. Plant Dis. 64:533-537.

Freeman, N.D. and J. K.Pataky. 2001. Levels of Stewart's wilt resistance necessary to prevent reductions in yield of sweet corn hybrids. Plant Dis. 85:1278-1284.

Lamka, G.L., J.H. Hill, D.C. McGee , and E.J. Braun. 1991. Development of an immunosorbent assay for seedborne Erwinia stewartii in corn seeds. Phytopathology 81:839-846.

Pataky, J.K. and R. Ikin. 2003. The risk of introducing Erwinia stewartii in maize seed: a pest risk analysis prepared for the International Seed Federation, Nyon, Switzerland. http://www.worldseed.org/phytosanitary.htm

Pataky, J. K., P.M. Michener, N.D. Freeman, R.A. Weinzierl, and R. Teyker. 2000.Control of Stewart's wilt in sweet corn with seed treatment insecticides. Plant Dis. 84:1104-1108.

Pepper, E. H. 1967. Stewart's bacterial wilt of corn. Monograph 4. American Phytopathological Society. St. Paul, MN.

Smith, G. D. 1933. Golden Cross Bantam. USDA Agr. Circ. 268. 12 p

Stevens, N. E. 1934. Stewart's disease in relation to winter temperatures. Plant Dis. Reporter 18:141-149.

Stewart, F. C. 1897. A bacterial disease of sweet corn. N.Y. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 130:422-439.