A national survey of the commercial ornamental industry was conducted to determine the current status of pest control including chemical and nonchemical disease control practices. The fungicides thiophanate methyl, chlorothalonil, mancozeb, and metalaxyl were used in the greatest quantity and by the largest percentage of growers. Metalaxyl was used in greenhouse and field operations by the highest percentage of growers, primarily to control root diseases but many growers reported using metalaxyl to control foliar disease. Overall, more fungicides were used in the field for foliar diseases, whereas almost equal amounts of fungicides were used for foliar and root diseases in the greenhouse.
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Ronald K. Jones, Ann R. Chase, Melvin P. Garber, William G. Hudson, Jeffrey G. Norcini, and Kane Bondari
Stephen R. King, Angela R. Davis, Wenge Liu, and Amnon Levi
Grafting vegetable crops is a common practice in Asia and parts of Europe. It was initially introduced to control fusarium wilt in watermelon ( Murata and Ohara, 1936 ), but its use has expanded to include a variety of diseases on cucurbit and
Mark A. Williams, John G. Strang, Ricardo T. Bessin, Derek Law, Delia Scott, Neil Wilson, Sarah Witt, and Douglas D. Archbold
leaves and fruit of apple scab–resistant cultivars exhibited disease or insect injury in a certified organic apple orchard. Quince rust ( Gymnosporangium clavipes ) caused the most damage, whereas damage from the major insect pests, codling moth and plum
Monica L. Elliott
For many years, the palm disease spectrum in the Florida landscape had been relatively stable, with lethal yellowing (a phytoplasma disease caused by ‘ Candidatus Phytoplasma palmae’ subgroup 16SrIV-A) and ganoderma butt rot (a fungal disease
H. Brent Pemberton, Kevin Ong, Mark Windham, Jennifer Olson, and David H. Byrne
Rose rosette disease is incited by a negative-sense RNA virus (genus Emaravirus ), which is vectored by a wind-dispersed eriophyid mite ( P. fructiphilus ) ( Di Bello et al., 2015a ; Laney et al., 2011 ). Symptoms on roses include witches broom
Laban K. Rutto, Yixiang Xu, Shuxin Ren, Holly Scoggins, and Jeanine Davis
economically important pests and diseases ( Mahaffee et al., 2009 ) of which downy mildew ( Pseudoperonospora humuli ) and powdery mildew ( Podosphaera macularis ), both influenced by climatic factors such as temperature, relative humidity, and leaf wetness
Kent M. Eskridge
55 COLLOQUIUM 2 (Abstr. 995-999) Classical and Molecular Approaches to Breeding Horticultural Plants for Disease Resistance
Alireza Pourreza, Won Suk Lee, Mark A. Ritenour, and Pamela Roberts
Florida citrus industry has been threatened by several, previously exotic citrus diseases during the past few years. Citrus canker (caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri ), a bacterial disease, was discovered in 1995 near the Miami
A. James Downer, Janice Y. Uchida, Donald R. Hodel, and Monica L. Elliott
where canary island date palm wilt is widespread, there have been no reports of mature, transplanted date palm of commerce with this disease in California, suggesting that mature date palms may not be susceptible to this pathogen. The pygmy date palm
Joseph Postman, Gayle Volk, and Herb Aldwinckle
Correlation of plant DNA sequence data with disease resistance data, with the goal of discovering genetic markers for valuable genes, is dependent on the existence of plant populations with known disease resistance. Segregating populations