Evaluation of integrated fire blight control technologies
Author: Ken Johnson
Published: 2011
Summary: The objectives of this project were: 1. Integrate a new material, Kasumin, for blossom blight control programs in conventional orchards. 2. Evaluate potential for the fire blight pathogen to become resistant to Kasumin. 3. Evaluate integrated biological/chemical control of fire blight with a spontaneous mutant of BlightBan C9-1 resistant to Kasumin. 4. Evaluate control of blossom blight with programs acceptable for fruit export to the European organic markets. (Apple crop protection funds) 5. Evaluate use of soil drenches of a systemic acquired resistance inducer as a fire blight management tool in diseased pear trees.
