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Biology of sweet cherry powdery mildew

Creator:

Calabro, Jill M.

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The Pacific Northwest has become one of the nation’s premier sweet cherry, Prunus avium, production areas. As production of sweet cherries has flourished in Oregon and Washington, so has powdery mildew, caused by the fungus Podosphaera clandestina, which infects both foliage and fruit causing severe economic damage to growers. Sweet...

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Dissertation

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1.3 Disease cycle of sweet cherry powdery mildew………...8 1.4 Disease forecasting and control
Responses and relationships among Fusarium species, sweet corn, and western spotted cucumber beetles

Creator:

Miller, Nathan L. (Nathan Louis)

Abstract:

Sweet corn (Zea mays L.) yields in the Willamette Valley of Oregon have been declining since the early 1990’s. Studies were done to determine if there is a relationship between ear weight and several disease parameters including necrotic crowns or stalk nodes, nodal root rot, radicle root rot, and sub-crown...

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Dissertation

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conductance, and disease in crown and node tissues of sweet corn grown in the Willamette Valley
Cover crop effects on root rot of sweet corn and soil properties

Creator:

Miyazoe, Mikio

Abstract:

Root rot of sweet corn in western Oregon and Washington is a significant disease that can reduce yield of intolerant cultivars of processed sweet corn by fifty percent. Root rot is caused by a complex of soilborne organisms, including Drechslera sp., Phoma terrestris, and Pythium arrhenomanes. Processors have adopted tolerant...

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Masters Thesis

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to focus on improving soil health to reduce disease, pest, and weed pressure and increase or