Final report: Improved Protein Bait Formulations for Fruit Fly Control
11 November 2003Integrated Viral Disease Management in Vegetable Crops
24 August 2012Project Code
Short Summary
This project has developed products to prevent infection or induce systemic acquired resistance with vegetables. It has also provided dramatic reductions (of up to 98%) in the impact of soilborne diseases in vegetable cropping systems using non-chemical control strategies such as crop rotation and grafting.
Year Published
2010
Project Provider
Victorian Department of Primary Industries
Attachment
This report details research directed towards the development of IPM based strategies for the management of key soilborne diseases (caused by pathogens Sclerotinia, Pythium, Fusarium, and Rhizoctonia spp.) in vegetable crops. It includes research into a range of techniques which may be applied broadly across a number of pathogens (eg. Biofumigation and green manures) and others which are specific to a particular host or pathogen (eg. Chemical controls and grafting). A significant part of the work has been directed toward the development and preliminary valuation of ‘novel’ strategies such as plant and fungal derived volatiles, melanin inhibitors, plant defence activators and the use of nutrients and surfactants.
Project report
Pests diseases and biosecurity
On-farm and crop management