Disease management in orchards
Disease management in orchards
Collar rot and crown rot of apple trees, and trunk rot of stone-fruit trees (but rarely pear trees) are caused by the fungus Phytophthora.
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- By Bas van den Ende and Judy Tisdall
One of the most important diseases of apples and pears is Black Spot caused by fungi Venturia inaequalis (apple) or Venturia pirina (pear).
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- By Petar Bursac
Control of brown rot of stone fruit is becoming increasingly unsustainable with the exclusive use of fungicides, especially during wet growing seasons. (Articles continues from last month).
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- By Australian Stone fruit Grower
Control of brown rot of stone fruit is becoming increasingly unsustainable with the exclusive use of fungicides, especially during wet growing seasons.
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- By Australian Stone fruit Grower
I have worked on biological control agents for controlling crop diseases since 1992, mostly by using a group of fungi called Trichoderma spp., which are natural predators of other fungi.
There have been quite a lot of attempts to control crop diseases using biological controls, most of which have not amounted to commercial success.
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- By Dr Dean Metcalf, Biocontrol Australia
Pear decline was originally described as a virus-like agent. It was later determined to be a mycoplasma-like organism that has recently been renamed as a phytoplasma.
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- By Consultant-Fruit Production
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