Bean, Fusarium & planting strategies

What is it about?

Restricting Fusarium root rot (FRR) epidemics and improving productivity using fewer chemicals is a major concern in bean-growing regions. We have shown for the first time that a combination of herbicide and manure applications, fungicidal treatment of seeds, manual sowing and sprinkler irrigation were linked to low disease and high productivity examined in 122 commercial bean farms. Furrow irrigation, mechanical sowing, planting on raised seedbeds, the lack of fertilizer and herbicide use corresponded to high disease and low seed production.

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Why is it important?

Systematic understanding of crop-pathogen-environment-time interactions require detection of effective agro-ecological factors at large scale at first. Then plot-scale experiments could be designed based on macro-scale information.

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