Heller, V.G and Caskey, C and Penquite, R (1930) The possible Toxicity of Grain-Sorghum Smuts. Journal of Agricultural Research, 40 (4). pp. 347-351.
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Abstract
The results of experiments in 1927 [details of which are-given] showed that a diet in which as much as 10 per cent. of the normal carbohydrates were replaced by an equal amount of spores of sorghum kernel smuts [Sphacelotheca cruenta and 8. sorghi: R.A.M., iv, p. 158] had no deleterious effect on the growth, reproduction, and rearing of the young of rats, guineapigs, and rabbits. Toxic effects also failed to appear when horses, cows, and young cattle were fed on smutty sorghum grain and fodder over a period of 12 weeks, and in chickens which received rations prepared with smutty sorghum grain. The young animals grew as well as the controls, the old animals maintained their weight, and no reduction was noticed in the production of eggs in the hens or of milk in the cows used in the experiments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Department of Agricultural Chemistry Research Poultry Department, oklahoma Agricultural and medical College, okla. |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection Statistics and Experimentation |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Library ICRISAT-InfoSAT |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2012 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2012 13:59 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4933 |
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