Fig. 14. The open-pollinated cultivar Golden Bantam which was grown widely in the 1920s and early 1930s was extremely susceptible to Stewart’s wilt. A Stewart’s wilt resistant hybrid Golden Cross Bantam was created from two inbred lines, P39 and P 51, that were developed from Golden Bantam by Glenn Smith, a USDA plant pathologist at Purdue University.

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