Journal article
Apple replant disease: role of microbial ecology in cause and control
Annual review of phytopathology, Vol.50(1), pp.45-65
2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118219
PMID: 22559069
Abstract
Replant disease of apple is common to all major apple growing regions of the world. Difficulties in defining disease etiology, which can be exacerbated by abiotic factors, have limited progress toward developing alternatives to soil fumigation for disease control. However, the preponderance of data derived from studies of orchard soil biology employing multidisciplinary approaches has defined a complex of pathogens/parasites as causal agents of the disease. Approaches to manipulate microbial resources endemic to the orchard soil system have been proposed to induce a state of general soil suppressiveness to replant disease. Such a long-term strategy may benefit the existing orchard through extending the period of economic viability and reduce overall disease pressure to which young trees are exposed during establishment of successive plantings on the site. Alternatively, more near-term methods have been devised to achieve specific quantitative and qualitative changes in soil biology during the period of orchard renovation that may lead to effective disease suppression.
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- Title
- Apple replant disease: role of microbial ecology in cause and control
- Creators
- Mark Mazzola - Tree Fruit Research Lab, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Wenatchee, Washington 98801, USA. mark.mazzola@ars.usda.govLuisa M Manici
- Publication Details
- Annual review of phytopathology, Vol.50(1), pp.45-65
- Academic Unit
- Plant Pathology, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900548120301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article