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TOXIN DISCOVERY
TO CONTROL MOLD
Iowa Scientists Announce
Benefit to Grains, Fruits,
Vegetables.
BI the Associated Press,
AMES, Iowa, April 9,—Iowa State
College scientists announced today
discovery of a cheap practical method
of controlling mold—the leech-like
growth that steals the life-blood of
plants and taints food.
Dr. I. E. Melhus and Dr. George C.
Kent, botanists, said three years’
experimentation yielded a substance—
a "toxin”—that will retard the fungus
and mold growth on corn, barley,
fruits and vegetables. They esti
mated farmers may be able to save
millions of dollars yearly by applying
the toxin.
Losses due to fungus disease on all
economic plants, they said, have been
estimated as high as a billion and a
half dollars annually, compared with
insect damage estimated at a billion.
Mold, the botanists explained, is
the common family name for the
large group of sometimes visible para
sites. Science formerly assumed,
they said, that mold, being of a higher
order than bacteria, would not, as
bacterial organisms frequently do,
produce "self-toxic” substances.
Limit to Harmfulness.
Their toxins are specifically harm
ful only to the organisms that pro
duce them, but a few of them, the
botanists said, are harmful to similar
species in the family from which the
original mold came.
Specific molds and fungus toxins
already developed by the two men,
they said, were: Diplodea zeae (dry
rot of corn); gibbereila suabinettii
(barley scab); aspergillus niger (black
spores of any rotting substances);
helminthorsporium graminum tspli
organism causing barley blight).
With their discovery that molds do
produce toxins, the scientists said,
production of further toxins for spe
cofic molds is a simple matter.
They produce the toxin by growing
the mold as a scum on top of a liquid
containing food for the organisms.
Then they ground the growth and
extracted from it the liquid, which,
they said, contained the toxin that
retards the mold's growth.
In its applieation on corn, the men
explained, the seeds were soaked in
the liquid toxin which permeates the
embryo and germ of the kernel, in
hibiting the growth of the mold re
productive cells when the corn started
to grow.
Not Poison to Humans.
Malhus said the poisons developed
by their research were not harmful
to humans, plants or animals In the
concentration necessary to retard mold
growth.
Elimination of poisonous sprays, the
scientists said, might be the first
result of widespread use of the new
product.
Another possible use, but one which
would require considerable additional
research before it could be applied
practically, might be in the preserva
tion of foods, the botanists added.
Eventually, they said, the mold "in
hibitor” being harmless to man, might
be placed in canned foods and on all
fruits and vegetables.
They predicted it might be possible
to control most of the mold growth
that now "pesters the human race.”
MOTORIST MUST PAY
LOCOMOTIVE DAMAGE
Railroad, Sued, Files Counter Suit
and Wins $484 Judgment in
Crossing Crash.
By tfte Associated Press.
WORCESTER, Mass., April 9—On
October 10, 1930, a freight train hit
a truck at Wyman's crossing in
Winchendon.
The truck was demolished after its
occupants. Maurice Dipinto and Pas
quale Dipinto, his father, had leaped
to safety.
The Dipintos sued the Boston &
Maine Railroad, and the railroad
sued the Dipintos.
Yesterday a Superior Court jury,
after listening to the story, told the
two men to pay the railroad $484 for
damages to the locomotive cow
catcher.
Roosevelt Double
A striking resemblance to
President Roosevelt, both in
appearance and speech, was
noted yesterday ivhen Igna
tius M. Wilkinson, above, dean
of the Fordham University
Law School, appeared before
the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee to testify in opposition
to the President's Supreme
Court bill.
—Harris-Ewing Photo,
Lepers Seize Town, Win Revolt.
Isacca, Rumania, had a panic when
120 lepers broke from a nearby hos
pital as a protest against their food.
Invading the village, the lepers seized
the Town Hall. The villagers fled.
When panic had abated the lepers dis
cussed their grievances with the au
thorities. who remained at a safe dis
tance. The lepers won and returned
j to their hospital.
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