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Vegetable Crops Pt1
... cold or very hot soil tempera- ture. Resistant varieties and long rotations will avoid crop loss. Downy Mildew (fungus - Peronospora parasitica): The fungus is more noticeable on the underside of ... of several days. All above ground portions may be infected. Seed treatment, crop rotation and destruction of crop residues are important practices for the control of this disease. Preventative fungicide ...
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Vegetable Crops pt 2
... from overwintering infected weeds. The disease usually occurs sporadically with little economic loss. See Cotton Root Rot: CELERY Apium graveolens var. dulce Cercospora Blight (fungus - Cercospora ... drained soil, and deep plowing to remove old crop residue. Aphanomyces Root-Rot (fungus - Aphanomyces euteiches): Early infection causes complete crop loss due to seedling death. Late infection ...
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Vegetable Crops - pt 3
... several leaf spotting organisms which attack okra. However, none have been shown to cause economic loss. No control is recommended. Blossom and Fruit Blight (fungus - Choanephora cucurbitarum): Young fruit and ... at the base. High soil temperatures favor disease development. No control practices are available, although crop rotation may be of help in avoiding soils that could have been infested from ...
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Vegetable Crops - pt 6
... spores from diseased to healthy plants. Control measures include crop rotation, seedbed sanitation and preventative fungicide applications as for ... a drooping and wilting of lower leaves with a loss of green color followed by wilting and death of ... overwinter on crop residue from previous crops, decaying vegetation and some tomato-related wild hosts. Crop rotation, plowing under crop residues, and ...
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Lespedza
... pasture applications. Species of nematodes other than root knot may affect this crop and cause stunting as well as loss of stand. Dodder (parasitic plant - Cuscuta spp.): This small, light yellow parasitic ...
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Dodder
... reduced. The greatest loss occurs in legumes grown for seed. Seed cleaning may also be a major cost. Only certain levels of dodder seed are tolerated in crop seed sold in Texas ...
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Non-chemical Control of Plant Diseases in the Home Garden
... disease organism may be limited on the first crop but sustain enough carry-over in the soil to cause severe loss on the following crop. Vegetables from different family groups should be rotated ... to produce an acceptable yield before or without losing vigor to disease attack. Sanitation. Any crop residue destruction practice that reduces the disease agent's ability to reproduce or overseason could ...
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Multicrop Problems
... planting is one of the most satisfactory means of preventing loss of seedlings in garden areas. Small lots of soil can ... Southern blight can be controlled with cultural and chemical techniques. Burying crop residue deep enough to prevent its being brought back up ... plowed under early to allow complete decomposition before a susceptible crop is planted. Nematodes may cause symptoms similar to stem and ...
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Daucus carota var. mativue, Disease Descriptions - Aster Yellows
... #8]. This organism is transmitted by leafhoppers. weeds in and surrounding the crop can serve as a reservoir for this pathogen. The disease usually occurs sporadically with little economic loss. October, 1996
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Diseases of Carrot, Daucus carota var. mativue
... conditions foliage appears as if burned by fire [Photo #2]. The fungus overwinters in infected crop refuse. Air-borne spores of the fungus are produced in large numbers on old ... by leafhoppers. weeds in and surrounding the crop can serve as a reservoir for this pathogen. The disease usually occurs sporadically with little economic loss. Southern Blight (fungus - Sclerotium rolfsii): This disease ...
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