ABSTRACT
For the past half century or more, the Cotton Disease Council has been involved in the search for the most effective, most economical, and safest ways to control seedling diseases of cotton. The results of the thousands of tests conducted by this group have been reported annually at this meeting, published in the meeting proceedings, as well as in various journals. These tests have included cultural practices such as rotations using various crop sequences, as well as many seed and soil treatment trials involving hundreds of chemical fungicides. In recent years we have searched for potential controls among bacteria and fungi antagonistic to seedling pathogens. Despite our best efforts, seedling disease losses continue to be listed as number one among the various cotton diseases reported annually by this council. Our research, therefore, continues for better, more economical and, in our last decade of the twentieth century, more environmentally acceptable controls for this important problem.
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