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Effect of sanitation treatment and cultivar on saprophytic development of Blumeriella jaapii in integrated and organic sour cherry orchards

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A three-year study was conducted to determine the effect of urea and lime sulphur sanitation treatments on three saprophytic development stages of Blumeriella jaapii on two sour cherry cultivars in integrated and organic orchards. The sanitation treatments in the integrated orchard included sprays of urea applied in the autumn, sprays of urea followed by mulch cover, and non-sanitized control. Urea was replaced with lime sulphur in the treatments in the organic orchard. The percent survival of three saprophytic development stages of B. jaapii (i.e., saprophytic hyphal growth, mycelial aggregates, and presence of apothecia and/or winter acervuli) ranged between 11 and 70 % and between 21 and 67 % in the urea and lime sulphur treatments, in the integrated and organic orchards, respectively. In all years, all urea and lime sulphur treatments significantly (P < 0.05) reduced the percent survival of the three development stages of B. jaapii compared to non-sanitized plots in both orchards and on both cultivars. Treatments that included a mulch cover resulted in a generally lower percent survival of the three development stages of B. jaapii than treatments that did not include the mulch cover, but their significance varied among the B. jaapii development stages, for years, cultivars and orchards. An interpretation of the importance of these sanitation treatments for orchard management practices is discussed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the growers and farm managers for their cooperation: F. Abonyi and L. Halász. Thanks are also due to J. Holb, Sr. for his excellent recommendations on the conduct of the study. The authors also thank to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions on the earlier version of this publication. This research was partly supported by the grants of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA K78399 and K108333), and by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP-4.2.4.A/2-11/1-2012-0001 ‘National Excellence Program’ under the project number: A2-SZJ-TOK-13-0061 and by a János Bolyai Research Fellowship awarded to I.J. Holb.

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  1. University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 36, 4015, Debrecen, Hungary

    Imre J. Holb & Alex Vámos

  2. Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 102, 1525, Budapest, Hungary

    Imre J. Holb

  3. National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forest Biology, Viale dell’ Università 16, Legnaro, 35020, PD, Italy

    Vasileios P. Vasileiadis

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Holb, I.J., Vasileiadis, V.P. & Vámos, A. Effect of sanitation treatment and cultivar on saprophytic development of Blumeriella jaapii in integrated and organic sour cherry orchards. Australasian Plant Pathol. 43, 439–446 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-014-0291-x

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