L. E. Melchers

1887 – 1974

• Rust resistance in winter-wheat varieties
• A check list of plant diseases and fungi occurring in Egypt
• A study of the physiologic forms of kernel smut (Sphacelotheca sorghi) of sorghum
• Economic plant diseases common in Kansas and their control
• Insects and plant diseases attacking garden crops
• Smuts of grain and forage crops in Kansas
• The control of sorghum kernel smut and the effect of seed treatments on vitality of sorghum seed
• The reaction of sorghum varieties and hybrids to Milo disease
• The wheat stem and leaf rust epidemics of 1938 in Kansas
• The wheat stem rust epidemic of Kansas in 1940