Quoting Prévost: “Every year, on the estate of M. Delmas, near Montauban, I made large-scale experiments of which I shall speak in treating of the preventives of bunt. The first question concerns the immediate cause of this deterioration of the grain, which I discovered in 1804, and of which I have assured myself since by a large number of experiments and observations. But I shall first give an exact idea of what is called bunt, whether from my own observations or from those of authors who have shed the most light upon this matter.”

Memoir on the Immediate Cause of Bunt or Smut of Wheat, and Several Other Diseases of Plants, and on the Preventatives of Bunt

Memoir on the Immediate Cause of Bunt or Smut of Wheat, and of Several Other Diseases of Plants, and on Preventives of Bunt

Part I: Description of Bunt of Wheat

Part II: Physiologic Cause of Bunt

Part III: Description of the Bunt Plant; Its Various Developments in Water and in Air

Part IV: Appearance and Progress of Bunt in the Embryo of the Kernel

Part V: Studies on the Introduction of the Bunt Plant into That of Wheat. Experiments and Observations Relative to This Subject

Part VI: Some Other Internal Plants Whose History May Serve to Throw Some Light on the Fructification of Bunt

Part VII: Conditions That Inhibit the Growth or the Propagation of Bunt, and Those That Favor Them

Part VIII: Some Preventives

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