Soft-fruit growers spend considerable sums trying to control two-spotted spider mite.
The HDC has identified sustainable crop protection measures as a top priority and its EAMU programme is of key importance. Active ingredients are sought to maintain anti-resistance strategies with an emphasis on new chemistry with improved environmental profiles and non-chemical approaches.
Grafting is an important tool in the battle against the pests and diseases of vegetable crops, especially for members of the Cucurbitaceae (such as cucumbers and melons) and Solanaceae (such as tomatoes, eggplants and peppers) families.
The suppression and control of high humidity in glasshouses is important because it helps prevent fungal disease and promotes crop transpiration and growth. Condensation or relative humidities of more than 90 per cent for prolonged periods increase the risk of stem Botrytis, a devastating disease in...
Sclerotinia disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum continues to be a major problem in many vegetable crops. In fact, there are very few vegetable crops that are not susceptible to the disease.
The industry is currently under pressure to take a more rational approach to the use of pesticides while still maintaining pest populations below the thresholds at which economic damage occurs.
Columnea latent viroid (CLVd) is one of nine viroids known to affect tomatoes.
Aphids and related pests cause immense damage to a wide variety of crops.
There is increasing pressure on conventional growers of orchard and field crops to reduce their usage of synthetic fungicides while the fungicides available to organic growers are limited both in number and effectiveness.
After scab and canker, powdery mildew is the most significant disease on apple in the UK.
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