A wide variety of terpenes and related compounds at certain concentrations were capable of accelerating the rate of germination of uredospores of stem rust of wheat floating on water. 2. The majority of the compounds, at some concentration, induced a stimulation equal to or greater than that of a stimulatory material extracted from the uredospores themselves.
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Richard C. French (1961) studied this question.