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on the fungi concerned in the fermentation of rice in the 

 production of indigenous beer. The chief fungi present 

 were Mucor Prainii Nech., Mucor jaoanicus Wehm., 

 Cladosporium Chodati (Nech.) Sacc, Rltizoyous Cambodja 

 (Chrz.) Vuill. 



VI.— Programme of work for 1914-15. 



(1) Research and experimental work. — The investiga- 

 tion of some diseases of rice will be continued. The pre- 

 sent stage of the investigations is given in Pusa Bulletin 

 No. 34, 1913 " Diseases of Rice " and Memoir, Botanical 

 Series VI, No. 2, 1913 "A sclerotial disease of Rice/' 

 The work will be continued particularly with a view to fill- 

 ing up gaps in our knowledge of the life-history of the 

 organism which causes " ufra " disease, to the explanation 

 of the apparent immunity of transplanted paddy to this 

 disease, and to testing methods for its control. An obscure 

 diseased condition of rice, known in parts of Bihar as 

 " chatra," will be studied. Both these are major investi- 

 gations. With regard to the other diseases of rice, none 

 appear at present to be of great practical importance, and 

 the investigations will be confined chiefly to the life history 

 of the parasites concerned. 



The investigation of the fungus diseases of sugarcane 

 will be continued. Two Memoirs (Botanical Series VI, 

 Nos. 5 and 6) containing the results of the work up to date, 

 were published in 1913, and deal with the methods of infec- 

 tion and control in reel rot of sugarcane, and with the 

 symptoms and cause of three undescribed cane diseases, 

 two of which have been sometimes confused with red rot. 

 Future work will, for the present, be considered as of minor 

 importance and will include a more detailed study of one 

 of these diseases, " collar rot," and its connection, if any, 

 with the sereh-like degeneration of cane known in several 

 parts of India, and also the extent to which soil infection 

 occurs in red rot. 



The study of the wilt disease of cotton and sesamum 

 will be continued on the lines described in Memoir, 



