LING KC's scientific contributions

... Whilst most of these are Oryza sativa L. (Asian rice) there are also relatively large collections of other Oryza species with very interesting traits which can be included in breeding programmes. For example, O. nivara confers the gene for resistance to grassy stunt virus disease (Ling et al., 1970; Chang et al., 1975). A programme of morphometric characterisation of these accessions is under way, but this is time consuming. ...

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The use of RAPD markers to facilitate the identification of Oryza within a germplasm collection

... The first electron micrograph of tungro virus particles in an ultrathin section of diseased leaf was made by Dr. E.Shikata in early 1967. Shikata's result has been published only by Ou and Ling (1967) who adopted 30 to 35 rn as the size of particles. Later, Gfilvez (1968a) purified the virus and reported that the particles are poly hedral and 30 to 33 nm in diameter. ...

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Rice virus diseases

... Ratoon cropping, the cultivation of crop regrowth after harvest, is prac ticed in surgarcane, sorghum, cotton, banana, pineapple, rice, ramie, and other crops (75). Virus diseases of rice and sorghum and bacterial blight and leaf crumple virus in cotton have increased with ratoon cropping (67,75). ...

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Effects of Reduced Tillage and Multiple Cropping on Plant Diseases