Excerpt from Bibliography of Soybean Diseases

This bibliography was initiated while the writer was engaged in studies of soybean diseases in Western China during the Sino -japanese war. Although all the experimental records were lost, this manuscript survived accidentally. In the writer's sojourn at Washington, D. C. During the past three years, access to the excellent facilities of the Library of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has enabled him to expand the manuscript and to bring it up-to-date. It has also given him the Opportunity of checking over many original publications which appeared in various languages. In its present form, this bibliography covers approximately 500 titles published from 1882 to 1950, including a number on soybean diseases in the Orient, which are not easily accessible to western readers. It is recognized, however, that a publication of this nature can never be complete and that a number of papers related to the subject, especially shorter ones, may have been overlooked. The writer would appreciate it if such omissions were brought to his notice.

Following each title in this bibliography, a brief annotation is included to indicate its nature and contents in a general way, but such annotation is not intended to serve as an abstract or a review of the publication concerned. For the convenience of those who may make use of this bibliography, an appendix is also provided, in which the causal agents of all the recorded diseases of soybean are arranged alphabetically according to their nature, with references to all literature citations. Common names and brief descriptions of symptoms are given for the common diseases For the organisms which were described originally as parasites of soybean, brief diagnoses of their taxonomic characters, taken chiefly from their original descriptions, are also included. Synonyms of the organisms are indicated only in cases where they have appeared in literature concerned with soybean diseases.

The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Dr. T. Matsumoto for checking the Japanese literature; to Mr. S. T. Liu for his help in the initial stages of preparation of the manuscript; and to Dr. P. R. Miller for his interest and a review of the manuscript.1.

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