relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/13648/
title: Evaluation of the users value of salts against apple scab and powdery mildew for fruit production
creator: Creemers, P.
creator: Van Laer, S.
creator: Van Mechelen, A.
creator: Vorstermans, B.
creator: Hauke, K.
subject: Crop health, quality, protection
subject: Fruit and berries
description: The research was aimed at finding anti resistance strategies for Integrated fruit growing.  As the salts tested may be approvable for organic farming, the trial results are also of  value for the development of scab an mildew control strategies for organic fruit growing. As  new fungicides are mainly unisite action fungicides, the problem of fungicide resistance  development is becoming more important every year. Combining chemical fungicides,  which is the best anti-resistance strategy, is not always possible or recommended in the  case when the number of available chemical fungicides are limited or a reduction in  fungicide use is asked for. Therefore the use of salts as an anti-resistance strategy was  looked upon. The salts evaluated were K(HCO3), KH2PO3, KHPO4 and K2SiO3. When  using these salts as an anti-resistance strategy the efficacy obtained when spraying the  compounds alone was often to low to be used in rotation with chemical fungicides. Only  with K(HCO3)2 a good efficacy can be observed in some years. The variation in efficacy  with K(HCO3)2 observed is higher for powdery mildew. K(HCO3)2 can be considered as a  ideal product for scab control in organic orchards at moments of low infection risk.
contributor: Boos, Markus
date: 2008
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: de
identifier: /id/eprint/13648/1/076-081.pdf
identifier:    Creemers, P.; Van Laer, S.; Van Mechelen, A.; Vorstermans, B. and Hauke, K.    (2008) Evaluation of the users value of salts against apple scab and powdery mildew for fruit production.   In: Boos, Markus (Ed.)  Ecofruit - 13th International Conference on Cultivation Technique and Phytopathological Problems in Organic Fruit-Growing: Proceedings to the Conference from 18thFebruary to 20th February 2008 at Weinsberg/Germany, pp. 76-81.