Evaluation of fungicides for control of eyespot disease and yield loss nationships in winter wheat

Following the discovery of resistance to benzimidazole fungicides in the cereal eyespot pathogen Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides in the UK in 1981, and an initial in vitro screen to select the fungicides with greatest activity against the pathogen, 40 field experiments were carried out between 1983 and 1986 to evaluate alternative fungicides for control of eyespot. At the majority of experimental sites, benomyl-resistant strains of the pathogen were present, and carbendazim did not control eyespot. Prochloraz was the most effective fungicide, reducing the eyespot index by 30–60%. There was no extra benefit from adding carbendazim to prochloraz. Flusilazole was almost as effective as prochloraz, but other fungicides had little or no effect. At sites with a high incidence of eyespot, prochloraz, with or without the addition of carbendazim, generally gave the largest yield increase. The mean yield increases each year were in the range 0·36–0·85 t/ha, and the greatest yield increase at any site was 2·27 t/ha. Most other fungicides increased yield, but carbendazim did not from 1984 to 1986. There were also yield increases at many sites with a low incidence of eyespot. Yield increases were associated with increases in thousand-grain weight at the majority of sites, but in only a few instances were there associated increases in specific weight. Prochloraz application at GS30-31 was cost effective at 71% of sites. At most sites, in regression of yield on eyespot, eyespot accounted for less than 25% of the variance in yield. The mean relationship between severe eyespot lesions and yield loss was such that each 1% increase in the percentage of tillers affected by severe eyespot was associated with a yield loss of 0·21 %. There was a significant positive correlation between eyespot at GS75 and GS30-31, and between yield increase from prochloraz treatment (at GS30-31) and eyespot at GS75, but not between yield increase and eyespot at GS30-31. The ADAS threshold for fungicide application of 20% tillers affected at GS30-31 was a reliable indicator of the cost-effectiveness of treatment at 60% of sites.     

Effect of Fungicides on Septoria nodorum and Wheat Green Leaf Area1

Fungicides applied at different growth stages were compared for the control of wheat glume blotch, caused by Septoria nodorum (Berk.) Berk. In glasshouse and small-scale field tests, 11 commercially used fungicides, when applied to fully emerged wheat ears, cv. Hobbit, gave only partial control of ear infection by spores applied immediately after spraying. They gave better control of infection of leaves by a similar inoculum. Larger field trials, moreover, indicated better foliar and ear disease control from fungicide applications made before ear emergence, compared with those applied later. In another field trial, nine fungicides were applied to replicated plots of winter wheat, cultivars Atou and Hobbit at GS 31, GS 39, GS 55 or GS 71. On five occasions from anthesis (25 June) until 30 July disease was assessed and green leaf area measured. The trial was harvested on 22 August 1980. Significantly greater yields and grain weights were obtained from plots sprayed with fungicide at GS 39 than from those sprayed at any other time or left unsprayed. Treatments made before symptoms of infection by S. nodorum developed (i.e. before GS 55) prolonged the duration of green leaf areas during the post-anthesis period. Grain weight and yield increases were related closely to the duration of green leaf area above 75 96, but not to the amount of green leaf area at any single assessment nor to the subsequent degree of disease development. The data on which this abstract is based form part of a continuing research programme, the results of which will be published in full at a later date. Full details on the 1980 results referred to above appear in the Annual Report of Long Ashton Research Station (1980).     

Thresholds for control of Septoria spp. in winter wheat based on precipitation and growth stage

A simple forecasting model for Septoria spp. in winter wheat was developed based on historical data (1980–89) including precipitation, growth stage, disease severity and yield response to fungicide treatments. The number of days with precipitation ≥ 1 mm, calculated during a 30-day period starting at the beginning of stem elongation (GS 32), correlated well with attacks of Septoria spp. later in the season and with the yield response in trials with fungicide treatments. Seven or 8 days with rainfall ≥ 1 mm was suggested as a threshold for Septoria treatment. Model development and possible further improvements are discussed.     

Comparison of Programmed and Supervised Control Systems for Field Crops1

The effects of increasing inputs of pesticides, nitrogen and growth regulators were studied in field trials in winter wheat and spring barley in southern Sweden. The trials also included a comparison of different strategies: no control, routine control and supervised control. In 1982 EPIPRE, a computerized pest and disease management system developed in the Netherlands, was included. High inputs of nitrogen only slightly influenced the yields. In winter wheat, routine control, comprising one insecticide and three fungicide sprays, heavily increased the yield and was more profitable than supervised control. On an average only 1.2 pesticide sprays were carried out in supervised plots. However, in spring barley supervised control was slightly more profitable than routine control comprising one fungicide and one insecticide application. The average number of sprays in supervised was 0.6 only. In both winter wheat and barley the yield increase for routine control significantly increased with increasing nitrogen level. In barley a significant relationship between number of aphids per tiller and yield increase could be proved.     

Benzimidazole resistance in Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides: results of ADAS random surveys and fungicide trials in England and Wales, 1982–19841

Surveys of 59 and 528 randomly selected winter wheat and winter barley crops in 1982 and 1983 respectively, showed that benzimidazole-resistant strains of the eyespot fungus (Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides) were common and widespread. The frequency of occurrence of resistant isolates, both in 1982 and 1983. was positively correlated with the number of benzimidazole fungicide applications since 1975. Resistance was much more frequent in R-type than in W-type strains of P. herpotrichoides. Fungicides or fungicide mixtures, applied to winter wheat at growth stage (GS) 31, were compared for control of eyespot at six sites in 1983 and one in 1984 where benzimidazole-resistant strains were readily detected prior to spraying. Carbendazim alone gave no control of eyespot and in some trials actually increased disease levels compared with the unsprayed control. Prochloraz, either alone or in mixture with carbendazim, was the most effective fungicide giving a moderate control of eyespot (33–42% reduction) and cost-effective yield increases. DPX-II6573, tested only in the 1984 trial, was as effective as prochloraz. The practical implications of these findings are discussed.     

The estimation of yield losses in wheat from severity of infection by Septoria species

Equations to assist the estimation of national losses from the results of disease surveys carried out at GS75 were derived from five fungicide trials and two inoculation experiments in the field. The equations indicate that the percentage loss in grain yield is equal to 5.412x_i^0.6, 1.011x_ior 0.551x_ii where x_i and x_ii are the percentage area infected on the flag and second leaves respectively.     

Control of loose smut (Ustilago nuda and U. tritici) infections in barley and wheat plants by foliar application of triadimefon

Foliar application of the broad-spectrum systemic fungicide triadimefon to loose smut-infected plants of wheat and barley produced a marked curative effect. Triadimefon was particularly effective when applied at the beginning of and during stem extension. In addition to reducing percentage plant infection, foliar application of this fungicide (particularly prior to flag leaf emergence) resulted in an increased proportion of infected ears which were only partially smutted. The curative effect of these early fungicide applications resulted in significant yield increases, as a consequence of increased grain number per m². Application of triadimefon to crops at ear emergence had no significant effect on percentage plant infection but resulted in lower levels of re-infection following artificial or natural inoculation of healthy ears, apparently as a result of a protectant effect of fungicide residues on or in the ovaries.     

不同氮肥运筹对冬小麦产量、蛋白质及其组分的影响

2003～2004年在大田节水栽培条件下,研究了3个施氮水平(157.5 kg/hm2、226.5 kg/hm2、295.5kg /hm2)下氮肥一次性底施与分次施用(底肥 拔节期追肥)对两个小麦品种(强筋麦济南17与中筋麦石家庄8号)品质和产量的影响.结果表明:节水栽培条件下不同氮素水平及等量氮肥一次性基施与分次施用两小麦品种产量差异不显著,过量施用氮肥产量反而有所下降;施氮越多,氮肥生产力越低;不同处理对两品种小麦籽粒蛋白质及其各组分的影响也同样没有达到显著水平.     

Effects of blast on components of wheat physiology and grain yield as influenced by fungicide treatment and host resistance

Two field experiments (Exp. 1 and Exp. 2) were carried out to assess the physiological performance and grain yield of wheat cultivars BR‐18 (moderately resistant) and Guamirim (susceptible) inoculated with Pyricularia oryzae in plots treated or untreated with Ópera (fungicide 13.3% epoxiconazole + 5% pyraclostrobin). Results from regression analyses indicated that spike and leaf blast severity at 10–14 days after inoculation (dai) were associated with greater yield losses (highest negative slope) than severity at 18–22 dai. Relative to untreated Guamirim, there were 0.3% and 16% increases in Exp. 1 and 2, respectively, for untreated BR‐18 (resistance alone). For fungicide treatment alone, the mean yield of Guamirim increased by 20% and 61% in Exp. 1 and 2, respectively, relative to the untreated fungicide control, whereas for the fungicide treated BR‐18, the mean yield increased by 26% and 83% in Exp. 1 and 2, respectively. Fungicide application and cultivar resistance resulted in higher measures of leaf health and photosynthetic performance in both spikes and leaves than in the untreated susceptible reference treatment. The results from this study may be useful in future efforts to develop crop loss models and management guidelines for wheat blast.     

Effects of Pyrenophora teres on dry matter production and yield components of winter barley

Inoculation of winter barley plants in a glasshouse with Pyrenophora teres at three different growth stages (GS 11, 13 or 30) greatly decreased root and shoot dry matter production and the size of healthy leaves produced subsequently, but there was no significant yield loss with a single inoculation at GS 11 or 30. Inoculation at GS 13, GS 31 or GS 39 decreased grain yield by 12,17 and 20% respectively, and also straw yield. Larger yield losses resulted from repeated inoculations on five successive occasions (GS 11, 13, 30, 31 and 39) which caused much disease on all leaves throughout the life of the plant. All components of yield measured were decreased by the cumulative effect of successive inoculations; ear number by 15%), grain sites per ear by 20%, grain yield by 48% and straw yield by 32%.     

施氮时期对夏玉米生长、干物质转运与产量的影响

为探索不同施氮时期对陕西关中地区夏玉米生长和产量的影响,通过桶栽施氮试验,研究了施氮总量相同的情况下,不同施氮时期对夏玉米的生长、产量和干物质分配转运的影响。试验设置7个施氮处理:N0不施氮(对照);N1拔节期一次性施入;N2大喇叭口期一次性施入;N3吐丝期一次性施入;N4拔节期、大喇叭口期分次施入;N5拔节期和吐丝期分次施入;N6拔节期、大喇叭口期和吐丝期分三次施入。结果表明:N4处理植株的产量显著高于其它处理,相对于拔节期一次施肥的N1处理增加了5.56%;N4处理的叶面积、成熟期干物质较其它处理高,相对于N1处理分别增长了8.03%和8.29%;N2、N5和N6处理的产量和干物质量无显著性差异,相对于N1处理产量分别增长了4.0%、4.7%和4.1%,N1、N3处理的产量和干物质量较其它处理低,说明分次施肥可以提高玉米的产量和干物质量,最佳施肥方案为拔节期、大喇叭口期分次施入;N3、N5处理的干物质转运率相对较低,相对于产量较高的N4处理转运率分别降低5.5%和8.6%,但其花后同化物累积量相对于N4处理分别提高4.1%和7.8%,绿叶面积相对于其它处理较高,表明吐丝期追施氮肥可以延缓叶片衰老,从而提高玉米的产量。     

Evaluation of fungicide application rates,spray schedules and alternative management options for rust and angular leaf spot of snap beans in Uganda

Yield losses due to rust and angular leaf spot (ALS) of snap beans may reach 100% in Eastern Africa. Where susceptible varieties are grown, farmers control these diseases with routine fungicide applications. To determine an optimum application rate and spray schedule for Orius® (tebuconazole 250 g/L), we sprayed 10 mL and 20 mL Orius® per 15 L spray water twice at two trifoliate leaf stage and 50% flowering, and three times at the same stages, with an additional application at pod initiation. In farmers’ fields, we tested the effect of fungicide sprays, use of resistant variety, intercropping, increased plant spacing and farmyard manure on rust and ALS diseases. Application three times of 20 mL Orius® per 15 L spray water reduced rust severity scores by 5.7 and 2.4 in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Lowest rust and ALS severities were observed when a resistant variety, fungicide or farmyard manure was used. Pod yield increments due to disease management ranged between 13% and 242%. Prophylactic fungicide application, use of resistant varieties and farmyard manure can be used to reduce disease severity and improve snap bean quality on smallholder farms.     

Multiple mid-Atlantic field experiments show no economic benefit to fungicide application when fungal disease is absent in winter wheat

Strobilurin fungicides produce intensified greening and delayed senescence in plants, and have been claimed to enhance yields of field crops in the absence of disease. To help evaluate this claim, available publicly sponsored tests of fungicides on soft red winter wheat in Virginia and North Carolina (n = 42) were analyzed for the period 1994 to 2010. All tests were replicated and had a randomized complete block, split-plot, or split-block design. Each test included 1 to 32 cultivars and one to five fungicides (two strobilurins, one triazole, and two strobilurin-triazole mixtures). There was a total of 311 test-cultivar-fungicide treatment comparisons, where a comparison was the reported yield difference between sprayed and unsprayed treatments of a given cultivar in a given test. Parameters used to calculate the economic benefit or loss associated with fungicide application included a grain price range of $73.49 to 257.21 Mg(-1) ($2 to 7 bu(-1)), a total fungicide application cost of $24.71 to 74.13 ha(-1) ($10 to 30 acre(-1)), and a 0.14 to 0.21 Mg ha(-1) (2.3 to 3.4 bu acre(-1)) loss in yield from driving over wheat during application (with a sprayer 27.4 or 18.3 m [90 or 60 feet] wide, respectively). The yield increase needed to pay for a fungicide application at each combination of cost and price was calculated, and the cumulative probability function for the fungicide yield-response data was modeled. The model was used to predict the probability of achieving a break-even yield, and the probabilities were graphed against each cost-price combination. Tests were categorized as "no-disease" or "diseased" based on reports of the researchers rating the tests. Subsets of the data were analyzed to assess the profitability of the triazole fungicide and the strobilurin-containing fungicides separately in no-disease versus diseased experiments. From the results, it was concluded that, with routine fungicide application based solely on wheat growth stage, total fungicide application costs had to be <$24.71 ha(-1) ($10 acre(-1)) in order to average a ≥ 50% probability of breaking even or making a profit (compared with not spraying). By contrast, if fungicides were applied when fungal disease was present, total application costs of ≤ $47 ha(-1) ($19 acre(-1)) for strobilurins and ≤ $72 ha(-1) ($29 acre(-1)) for propiconazole alone were associated with a ≥ 50% probability of breaking even or making a profit at a wheat price of $184 Mg(-1). The results do not support the application of strobilurin or triazole fungicides to mid-Atlantic wheat crops for "plant health" in the absence of disease. Rather, they support basing the decision to apply fungicide on observation of disease, if an economic return for the input is desired.     

Probabilities for profitable fungicide use against gray leaf spot in hybrid maize

ABSTRACT Gray leaf spot, caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis, causes considerable yield losses in hybrid maize grown in the north-central United States and elsewhere. Nonchemical management tactics have not adequately prevented these losses. The probability of profitably using fungicide application as a management tool for gray leaf spot was evaluated in 10 field experiments under conditions of natural inoculum in Iowa. Gray leaf spot severity in untreated control plots ranged from 2.6 to 72.8% for the ear leaf and from 3.0 to 7.7 (1 to 9 scale) for whole-plot ratings. In each experiment, fungicide applications with propiconazole or mancozeb significantly reduced gray leaf spot severity. Fungicide treatment significantly (P 相似文献   

Assessment of sanitation and fungicide application directed at cocoa tree trunks for the control of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Phytophthora</Emphasis> black pod infections in pods growing in the canopy

Studies were conducted in two cocoa-growing areas of Ghana, one solely affected by Phytophthora palmivora and the other predominantly by Phytophthora megakarya, to determine the effectiveness of sanitation practices and fungicide application on tree trunks for the control of black pod disease in the canopy. Sanitation practices including weeding, pruning, thinning, shade reduction and removal of mummified pods were carried out prior to fungicide applications, and diseased pods were routinely removed at monthly intervals during harvesting. Three types of fungicides were used: systemic (Foli-R-Fos 400) applied as injection into the main trunks, semi-systemic (Ridomil 72 plus) and contact (Nordox 75, Kocide 101, Kocide DF, Blue Shield and Funguran-OH) applied as sprays onto pods on the main trunk. Sanitation combined with fungicide application on the trunk significantly reduced black pod disease incidence in the tree canopy. For fungicides applied as a spray, Ridomil 72 plus at 3.3 g l⁻¹ and Kocide DF at 10 g l⁻¹ and as injection, 40 ml Foli-R-Fos 400 injected twice a year, performed better than the other fungicide treatments. The position of pods significantly influenced the incidence of canopy black pod infection in the P. megakarya predominantly affected area but to a lesser extent in the P. palmivora solely affected area. However, no significant interactions were found between fungicide treatments and the position of pods on the tree in both disease areas. The determined trunk-canopy relationship in the development of black pod disease on cocoa can be used in disease control programmes to maximise the impact of sanitation practices, achieve judicious application of fungicides, thereby reducing the environmental impact of fungicides on the cocoa ecosystem, and ultimately increase the economic returns.     

Is the Loss of Cereals in the Field as a Consequence of a Narrow Rotation Always Caused by Pathogens 1)?

In a long-term field experiment on rotational effects with winter wheat as the test crop, continuous cereal growing leads to a depression in yield. The depression in yield of these rotations persists even when the nitrogen fertilization is increased to relatively high levels and the sole occurring pathogen, in this case Cercosporella herpotrichoides Fron, is kept in check by treatment with a fungicide. From the evidence obtained from the field experiment and additional information from an experiment in the glasshouse where the same rotations were involved, it is concluded that the observed depression in yield originates very early in the growing season. As a cause for this effect, the evidence points towards a lack of available nitrogen in late autumn and late winter.     

Use of multispectral radiometry in wheat yellow rust experiments1

Winter-wheat field fungicide experiments were monitored by multispectral radiometry to determine yellow rust impact on crop growth and to predict yield loss caused by disease. Spectral reflectance data were highly correlated with yellow rust severity. Linear regression models with spectral ratios as independent variables explained 90–93% of the variation in yield between plots with different treatments of fungicide. The area under the NIR/Red curve, calculated from heading to soft-dough growth stages, was a good predictor of yield loss determined at harvest.     

Influence of site factors on yield response of winter wheat to fungicide programmes in England and Wales, 1979–1987

Results of 460 field experiments between 1979 and 1987 incorporating one, two and three fungicide sprays, with a range of active ingredients, were analysed according to site factors including previous crop, sowing date and geographical area. The average untreated yield was 7–48 t/ha, although this fluctuated widely from 6 15 t/ha in 1985 to 9 411 ha in 1984. A single spray at flag-leaf emergence gave an average yield increment of 0 59 t/ha over plots receiving no fungicide. The addition of a second spray at the first-node growth stage gave an extra benefit of 0.22 t/ha, while an additional third spray at ear emergence gave a further 0.28t/ha. The effects on yield of different spray timings were modified by other factors, of which sowing date and previous crop were most important to the first-node spray, and cultivar and geographical area to the ear emergence spray. The data suggest that all crops would benefit economically from a broad-spectrum fungicide applied at flag-leaf emergence. Additionally, crops sown in September, those following winter wheat and those in regions bordering the North Sea respond well at the first-node stage to a fungicide active against eyespot.     

Profitability of fungicide applications for managing soybean rust in scenarios of variable efficacy and costs: A stochastic simulation

Soybean rust (SBR) in Brazil is controlled with fungicides, which have shown variable, sometimes declining, efficacy over time. A Monte Carlo simulation framework was implemented as a decision tool and to estimate the probability for a fungicide programme being profitable depending on efficacy and total cost defined by the user. Probability distributions were fitted to slopes and intercepts of the disease–yield relationship and severity in the untreated plots reported in the literature, as well as historical records of soybean price. Simulations of disease reduction conditioned to predefined control efficacy and total application costs were split into scenarios that combined two categories of severity (high and low) and two attainable yield classes (high and low). These categories were defined based on the median of severity (57.8%) and median of the intercept (yield when severity is zero, 2995.1 kg/ha). Probability matrices were constructed relating fungicide efficacy and costs. A higher frequency of break-even events occurred in scenarios of high disease pressure and higher yield. Yearly simulations, starting with 79.4% efficacy, assuming two rates of decline previously determined for tebuconazole (high decline rate), showed that the programme may remain profitable during the first 5 to 7 years of use, in contrast to cyproconazole (low decline rate), a fungicide that would be profitable during the entire decade. This approach was shown to be useful and can be adapted to other diseases of soybean and other crops, as long as damage functions are available. An interactive web app was developed to perform the simulations accessible at alvesks.shinyapps.io/rusty-profits/.     

氮磷营养对覆膜春玉米产量和品质的影响

对不同品种玉米在春覆膜及不同氮磷肥施用量条件下产量和籽粒主要品质变化的研究结果表明:氮肥和品种是影响玉米产量和籽粒品质的主要因素;在覆膜和露地栽培方式下,增施氮肥,玉米籽粒中蛋白质分别含量增加0.63%~0.87%、0.71%~0.75%,淀粉含量分别减少0.78%~1.74%、0.54%~1.02%;覆膜可增大不同品种玉米籽粒容重5.8~24.5g/L,增加籽粒淀粉含量0.32%~2.69%,降低籽粒中蛋白质含量0.29%~1.63%;施肥和覆膜对玉米籽粒脂肪和赖氨酸含量的影响较小。增施氮磷肥,能够明显提高玉米单产;春季覆膜栽培提高玉米单产777.00~2851.50kg/hm2。