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The production declined due to a decrease in area cultivated, dry weather, shortage of water, delayed sowing, low plant population, imbalance fertilizer use, and disease attack especially rice blast and bacterial leaf blight (Chaudhary et al., 2009). Before the introduction of new high-yielding fertilizer responsive varieties and intensive use of nitrogen, the soils were not ...
Today, Irish farmers know how fungicides have helped ensure that potato late blight remains a distant memory. Agriculture has come a long way since the nineteenth century, but as farmers you are still dealing with unpredictable weather, evolving pests, natural resource limitations, volatile markets and shifting consumer expectations. ...
Nutritionally improved golden rice, biotech brinjal, late blight-resistant potato or potato ring and spot virus-resistant papaya are Genetically Modified (GM) crops for commercial cultivation. ...
Solution 2500+ Plots audited and geo tagged to find the actual plot area Remote Sensing and Weather Advisory helped in detection of dew point, rainfall, frost, blight and other challenges related to dehaulming Gathering Complete information from farmer registration till harvest end Scheduling and monitoring farm activities for complete traceability Educating farmers on ...
Late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is the most important disease in potato production. Under favourable conditions the pathogen can destroy the potato foliage very rapidly and cause tuber blight. To avoid infection of the foliage, fungicides are frequently sprayed onto the crop. ...
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Since then, in the race to fend off fungal diseases like tomato blight and insects like the potato beetle, pesticides have gotten stronger. ...
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Additional Pest Management Details: Evaluate cultural, biological and chemical methods to reduce the incidence of soil borne diseases and blight. Tender Fruit Increase labour and operational efficiencies. ...
In addition to the hydroseeding works, we also planted over 6,000 bare root trees and shrubs across the site, helping transform the once blighted land into a new woodland habitat that encourages the local wildlife. ...
By 2050, according to new research in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, those opportunistic viruses, bacteria, fungi, blights, mildews, rusts, beetles, nematodes, flies, mites, spiders and caterpillars that farmers call pests will have saturated the world. ...
'The Spirit Level' by Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) provides a serious critique of inequality and how it blights the lives of many people in high-income countries. Unfolding in two main sections, this paper initially outlines Wilkinson's thesis generally before focusing and initiating a debate on Wilkinson and Pickett's suggestion of economic democracy (increased employee control ...
Host resistance is important to control Fusarium head blight (FHB) ), caused by the fungus Fusarium graminearum (Schwabe) [teleomorph: Gibberella zeae (schw.) ...
Improved cultural practices can be used to manage ascochyta blight in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), a disease caused by Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) ...
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB), which is mainly caused by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe [telomorph: Gibberella zeae Schw. ...
The objective of this work was to study the variability among common bean breeding lines selected from ancestral landraces, to evaluate the reaction of these lines to anthracnose (ANT) rust, common bacterial blight (CBB), halo bacterial blight (HBB) and bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) and to study the introgression in ancestral landraces of Phaseolus vulgaris L. ...
Control of Fusarium head blight (FHB), incited primarily by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe [telomorph Gibberella zea (Schwein)], has been a challenge for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) producers in the upper midwestern United States for more than a decade. ...
Fusarium head blight (FHB), primarily caused by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe [teleomorph: Gibberella zeae (Schwein.) ...
Most commercial cultivars of rice (Oryza sativa L.) are susceptible to sheath blight (SB), a devastating fungal disease causing significant losses in grain yield and quality. There are limited sources of genetic resistance adapted to U.S. growing conditions, and no commercial long grain cultivar of rice is currently available in the United States with a high level of SB ...
Halo blight [caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola (Burkh.) Young et al. ...
Reduced height (Rht) genes are used in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) breeding throughout the world. Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most destructive wheat diseases caused by Fusarium graminearum (Schwabe) and F. culmorum (W.G. ...
Moore] and a quantitative trait locus (QTL) to ascochyta blight (caused by Ascochyta lentis Vassilievsky) were mapped previously on LG6. ...