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Maine Relation of Climatology to the Production of Crops in Maine . 

 To (1) analyze and interpret meterological data with respect to 

 crop production in Maine; (2) learn specifically the influence of 

 climate on efficacy of crop treatments, chemical residues on treated 

 crops, and the incidence of plant diseases, 



PI. Path.,Ent., Chem., Hort. 94 (NE-35) Coop. USDC-WB 



Minn. Epidemiology of Leaf Spots and Other Foliage Diseases of Crop 



Plants . I. Forage Crop Diseases; II. Corn and Small Grain Diseases; 

 III, Soybean and Other Legume Diseases; IV. Potato, Tomato, and 

 Other Truck Crop Diseases; V. Tree Fruits and Small Fruits. 

 PI. Path., Bot. 2219 



W. Va. The Nutrition of Fungi and Bacteria With Especial Reference to 



Substances Which Induce. Stimulate, or Inhibit Growth and Reproduction , 

 To (1) study exact nutrition requirements and metabolic processes of 

 various fungi and bacteria; (2) isolate, identify and test chemical 

 substances required for growth and reproduction, and study mechanisms 

 of inhibition of life processes ; (3) utilize fungi and other micro- 

 organisms for qualitative and quantitative assay of substances of 

 physiological activity; and (5) study inheritance of certain physio- 

 logical characters in fungi. 

 PI. Path. 28 



W. Va. Cereal and Forage Crop Pests - Their Distribution. Incidence, 

 and Control in West Virginia . To (1) determine distribution 

 incidence and to estimate the economic importance of the principal 

 field and forage crop pests (insects, mites and nematodes) in the 

 State; and (2) devise effective control measures for those pests 

 found to be doing economic damage. 

 PI. Path. 80 



Bacterial Diseases 



Calif. Physiology of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria and Their Control by 



Chemicals Including Antibiotics . To expand the fundamental knowledge 

 of bacteria causing plant diseases, develop new concepts and 

 principles of chemical control and to utilize the phenomenon of 

 microbial antagonism in combating diseases of plants. 

 PI. Path. 1124 



