Resistance management
How To Avoid Getting “Mixed Up” Understanding Pesticide Mixtures
Dr. Raymond Cloyd discusses the fundamentals of pesticide mixtures, including the benefits and potential issues associated with pesticide mixtures and how pesticide mixtures may be helpful in resistance management. Speaker: Dr. Raymond Cloyd, Professor/Extension Specialist, Kansas State University - Department of Entomology
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Trap, banker and indicator: using plants for biological controls
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With the busy spring season almost upon us, it’s time to get into gear. So we gathered up some of the best tips from the past year of Greenhouse Management to help you put your best foot forward.
Developing rotation programs for arthropods and plant pathogens
Resistance management, Part 4: Reducing selection pressure by using pesticides, fungicides and bactericides with discrete modes of action can increase their longevity and preserve their effectiveness.
A focus on fungicide resistance
Plant pathologist Janna Beckerman shares what growers need to know about the growing problem of fungicide resistance.
The war against downy mildew
Improved fungicides, smart rotation approaches and new resistant varieties are weapons growers can use to fight this difficult disease.
Choose carefully
Proper selection and rotation will help growers avoid pesticide resistance.
What is pesticide resistance?
Resistance management, Part 1: the differences and similarities between resistance of arthropod pests and plant pathogens.
Delving into new disease foes
Not just for pests, biocontrol agents are being researched for their effect on diseases by Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, which has surveyed and spoken with growers who use them.
SePRO introduces Obtego Fungicide and Plant Symbiont
The wide-spectrum fungicide is highly effective against Pythium spp., Phytophthora spp., Rhizoctonia spp. and other diseases, the company says.
Running on the resistance treadmill
Through different research projects, Dr. David Smitley aims to help growers better deal with various pest problems.
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