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Soil/Media Disinfestation for Management of Florists’ Crops Diseases

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Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases

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In-ground and pot-based ornamental producers face many challenges related to management of soilborne pests. Ornamental crops are susceptible to a wide range of soilborne pathogens that are capable of surviving for long periods of time on plant debris or on weed hosts. Some of these pathogens have broad host ranges, making it difficult to use crop rotation as a management tool. The number of different species and varieties of ornamentals that may be grown in a small area is often very high, which makes control measures for individual plant pathogens impractical. The availability of commercially desirable varieties that have resistance to specific diseases is limited or unknown for many of the crops grown in pots and in-ground; therefore, broad-spectrum control measures are more feasible, both technically and economically. For many years, both potting soil and field soil were fumigated with methyl bromide, a cost-effective, broad-spectrum biocide, which controlled soilborne fungal and bacterial plant pathogens, plant-parasitic nematodes, and weeds. The loss of this versatile compound, due to its negative impact on the ozone layer, has led to the development of new soil disinfestation approaches as well as renewed interest in improving technologies used in the past. The tools that are currently available for soil disinfestation include fumigants, nonfumigant soil applied chemicals, steam, solarization, and anaerobic soil disinfestation.

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  1. USDA Horticultural Research Lab, Ft. Pierce, FL, USA

    Erin N. Rosskopf & Nancy Kokalis-Burelle

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Steven A. Fennimore

  3. UC IPM, San Diego, CA, USA

    Cheryl A. Wilen

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Rosskopf, E.N., Kokalis-Burelle, N., Fennimore, S.A., Wilen, C.A. (2016). Soil/Media Disinfestation for Management of Florists’ Crops Diseases. In: McGovern, R., Elmer, W. (eds) Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases. Handbook of Plant Disease Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32374-9_7-1

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