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Damping-off of sugar beet in Finland: III Effect of temperature and disease forecasting
Author(s) -
Mauritz Vestberg
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
agricultural and food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1795-1895
pISSN - 1459-6067
DOI - 10.23986/afsci.72182
Subject(s) - sugar beet , peat , incidence (geometry) , damping off , soil water , sugar , zoology , environmental science , agronomy , horticulture , chemistry , biology , soil science , ecology , food science , mathematics , geometry , seedling
The effect of temperature on the severity of damping-off of sugar beet was studied under controlled conditions. The disease incidence increased with increasing temperature. When the time up to emergence in a finesand soil was characterized by low temperatures (8°C night, 15°C day), a period of 14—21 days immediately after emergence caused a strong increase in disease incidence. In peat soil, even 7 days was enough to initiate such an increase. In neither of the soils used did three days of high post-emergence temperature cause any marked disease increase. When the pre-emergence period was characterized by high temperatures (15°C night, 25°C day) the disease was at a high level and in the very fine sand soil could not be lowered by lower temperatures. In the peat soil, however, a constant, low postemergence temperature significantly inhibited the development of the disease. The possibilities of damping-off forecasting by comparing the disease incidence in pot experiments to damping-off in the field seemed rather limited. When the temperature is taken into account, a negative prognosis may be possible. The basis of such a prognosis is the determination of the inoculum potential of the soil.

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