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Phytopathology News, Vol. 53, No. 04

​Plant Pathology’s Perplexing Past—The Rest of the Story

William Orton Begins Breeding for Disease Resistance​​

​Robert M. Harveson, University of Nebraska, rharveson2@unl.edu

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References​

Campbell, C. L., Peterson, P. D., a​nd Griffith, C. S. 1999. The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN.

Coons, G. H. 1928. Some aspects of t​he Fusarium problem. Pages 43-92 in: Plant Pathology and Physiology in Relation to Man. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia. 

Harveson, R. M. 1999. Evaluation of the parasitic relationship of Melanospora and other allied genera with Fusarium oxysporum. Ph.D. thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Harveson, R. M. 2015. The Bacterium of Many Colors. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, M​N.

Jones, L. R. 1931. William Allen Orton: 1877–1930. Phytopathology 21:1-11.

Orton, W. A. 1909. The development of farm crops resistant to disease. U.S. Dep. Agric. Yearbook 1908:453-464.