Optimizing fungicide timing for the control of Rhizoctonia crown and root rot of sugar beet using soil temperature and plant growth stages

Plant Disease

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1091-1098

  Kirk, W W ^a   Wharton, P S ^a   Schafer, R L ^a   Tumbalam, P ^a   Poindexter, S ^b   Guza, C ^c   Fogg, R ^c   Schlatter, T ^c   Stewart, J ^c   Hubbell, L ^c   Ruppal, D ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Saginaw County Extension (MSU)   (United States)

^c Monitor Sugar Company   (United States)

^d Syngenta Seeds/Hilleshog ^*

Author keywords

Beta vulgaris

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DAMPING; FUNGICIDES; GROUNDWATER; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STAGES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGAR BEETS; SUGARS; TEMPERATURE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AZOXYSTROBIN; CROP GROWTH; DISEASE DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FUNGICIDE APPLICATION; GROWING SEASONS; PLANT GROWTH STAGES; PLANTING DATE (PD); R. SOLANI; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; ROOT ROT; SEEDLING DEVELOPMENT; SOIL TEMPERATURES; SPLIT APPLICATION; SUGAR YIELDS; UNITED STATES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HYPHOMYCETES; RHIZOCTONIA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 47649095428     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-92-7-1091     Document Type: Article

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