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The Management of Dutch Elm Disease

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Abstract

Dutch elm disease (DED) has been a major environmental catastrophe in North America. Its management has been a saga highlighted more by failure than success, with approximately 70% of the mature landscape elms killed. DED must, and can be, managed, and is best achieved by prevention rather than cure. Prompt sanitation is the best single method of containing the disease, but an effective, rigidly implemented integrated system by which the fungal inoculum levels and vector densities are lowered is the ultimate regimen. DED management must be tailored for individual needs where the disease is either starting or where it has become established. Fungicides injected preventively or curatively have played an important role in lowering disease incidences when other methods could not or were not implemented. Fungicides must be considered one weapon in the total arsenal. This paper addresses the historical development of the fungicidal management of DED, and discusses relative efficacies of various methods and products.

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Stipes, R.J. (2000). The Management of Dutch Elm Disease. In: Dunn, C.P. (eds) The Elms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4507-1_9

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