mechanical injury

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Bromeliads
... even curved. Plants in this genus are very susceptible to injury from cold temperatures. GROWING BROMELIADS INDOORS Bromeliads are excellent indoor ... the plants, and the covers are unsightly. In addition, mechanical breakage of leaves often occurs. A more practical way ... crown of many bromeliads to rot. Also, plants subjected to mechanical injury, insects or sunburn may be invaded by one of many ...
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Handling, Cooling and Sanitation Techniques for Maintaining Postharvest Quality
... http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/CV/CV11500.pdf . Keywords: postharvest handling, mechanical injury, harvest, sanitation, shipping container, hydrocooling, chilling injury, commercial cooling Photo gallery: Fig. 1. Careless handling can hasten ripening, reducing ...
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Peonies
... or inhibit flowering, while shallower planting might make the bud more vulnerable to frost or mechanical injury. Deep planting is the most common reason for failure of peonies to bloom. But keep ...
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Staking and Guying Trees, HYG-1141-94
... flexibility and movement at the tying point, not realizing that this increases the risk of mechanical injury. Screw eyes set into the trunk create another way of attaching the wire to the ... to be severe punishment for the tree, the technique actually reduces the potential for mechanical damage. The injury associated with this type of attachment is actually relatively minor. Figure 4 Figure 5 ...
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Peach Canker, HYG-3005-94
... these are bacterial canker, insect borer injury and mechanical injury. When insects are involved, chewed-up wood dust is usually visible under the gum. Mechanical injury can often be verified by carefully ... pathogens and generally do not attack healthy, vigorous peach bark. Winter injury, insect damage, and mechanical injury are common types of wounds serving as entry points. The fungi survive ...
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Plum Curculio And Its Control, HYG-2043-88
... grow on the tree. Larval feeding in apples can cause distortion of the fruit. The mechanical injury by adults in feeding and egg deposition can cause premature fruit drop. When the summer ... occurs from September through early November. Plum curculio larva and pupa Control Measures Non-Chemical Mechanical control, by jarring the sluggish beetles from trees in the morning and capturing them on ...
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Cytospora Canker of Spruce, HYG-3033-96
... resin are quite conspicuous on the bark. Resin flow can, however, be associated with any injury to branch tissue. Cankers often cannot be located without cutting into the bark. Removal of ... on trees of low vigor. Those trees with shallow roots, weakened by drought, low fertility, mechanical injury, or insect damage; and trees growing in an unfavorable site are more susceptible to Cytospora ...
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Bacterial Spot of Pepper, HYG-3123-96
... and/or wounds, and fruits through wounds created by wind-driven sand, insect punctures, or mechanical injury. Dissemination of the bacterium occurs between and within fields by water-splashing, aerosols, or during ...
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Vegetable Crops - pt 6
... through natural openings; infection of other fruits must occur through insect punctures, sandblasting and other mechanical injury means. Bacterial spot is difficult to control once it appears in the field. Disease-free ... . The virus is not transmitted through the seed or soil, nor is it spread by mechanical means. The main vector is the beet leafhopper that becomes infected by feeding on wild ...
plantpathology.tamu.edu

Trees Part 4
... bark, pathogenic invasion and damage by A. mellea is almost always preceded by major root injury or other debilitation of the host. Cotton Root Rot (fungus - Phymatotrichum omnivorum): White mulberry has ... of the problem. Mechanical injury to the roots can cause symptoms easily confused with disease caused by fungi. In newly built areas, the damage most often observed is from root injury. Step to ...
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