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Creator:: Haley, Sue
Abstract:: Computer decision aids can help integrate and apply diverse sources of information and expertise to problems of integrated pest management (IPM) in agriculture and forestry. AppleMgr combines a rule-based expert system with databases and spreadsheets in a prototype decision aid intended to be expanded and modified for use by extension...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: growers. GrapES is an ES for grape growers in Pennsylvania that integrates disease and insect control

Creator:: Forsyth, Paul Griffin
Abstract:: Basamid^R (3,5-dimethy1-1,3,5,2H-tetrahydrothiadiazine- 2-thione) is a crystalline powder used as a soil sterilant. This fumigant acts in soil by decomposing to methylisothiocyanate (MITC), the primary active ingredient, as well as hydrogen sulfide, methylamine, and formaldehyde. In wood, Basamid decomposes too slowly to be efficacious against decay fungi unless amended with various...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Booth, Steven R.
Abstract:: This thesis addressed the potential of endemic predaceous and parasitic arthropods of the Hood River Valley, Oregon to suppress the pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola F8rster. Natural enemies adequately suppressed psylla in three of seven unsprayed orchards of differing vegetational settings, orchard age, and size. Relatively few psylla natural enemies dispersed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: russetted pears under standard and selective pest control programs during harvest at Quince, 1987-89. Total

Creator:: Fernando, W. Gerard Dilantha
Abstract:: Phytophthora vignae, causal agent of stem and root rot of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), was reported for the first time in Sri Lanka. The pathogen was found in cowpea field soils from 3 of 5 geographic regions sampled. Only one site however, had plants exhibiting disease symptoms. Of the eight cowpea...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: cultivars and other legumes grown in Sri Lanka, and (2) disease control using biological control agents

Creator:: Strong, Willard Billings, 1959-
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: )) and fungicides used for disease control also may affect TSSM and its predators (Croft 1990). Because

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