ANTIBACTERIAL SUBSTANCES IN SEED COATS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE INFECTION OF SWEET PEAS BY CORYNEBACTERIUM FASCIANS (TILFORD) DOWSON |
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| Authors: | S. E. JACOBS A. H. DADD |
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| Affiliation: | Bacteriological Laboratories, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London |
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| Abstract: | Antibacterial substances active against Corynebacterium fascians have been shown to be present in the coats of various seeds. There were considerable differences in activity between the seeds of different genera and species and between individual seeds of a single species.
C. fascians also showed strain variation in sensitivity to the antibacterial substances of the seeds of any one species. An inverse relationship was demonstrated between the sensitivity of a strain to the sweet-pea seed substances and its ability to infect sweet-pea seedlings under laboratory conditions. |
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