scholarly journals Reduction of Bacterial Spot Disease Severity on Tomato and Pepper Plants with Foliar Applications of Ammonium Lignosulfonate and Potassium Phosphate

Plant Disease ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 1232-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pervaiz A. Abbasi ◽  
Nader Soltani ◽  
Diane A. Cuppels ◽  
George Lazarovits
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Tomato Fruit ◽  
Potassium Phosphate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bacterial Spot ◽  
Phytotoxic Effect ◽  
Pepper Plants

Bacterial spot is a serious and persistent disease problem of tomato and bell pepper in both the United States and Canada. Current disease management practices, based primarily on fixed copper bactericides, do not give consistent, effective protection. Foliar applications of ammonium lignosulfonate (ALS), derived from the wood pulping process, and the fertilizer potassium phosphate (KP) were tested for their ability to control this disease under both greenhouse and field conditions. Acibenzolar-S-methyl was included as a control. Greenhouse-grown tomato transplants treated with acibenzolar-S-methyl, 2 or 4% (vol/vol) ALS, 25 mM KP, or 2% ALS plus 10 mM KP and then inoculated with Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria had significantly less disease than the unprotected controls. Weekly foliar applications of acibenzolar-S-methyl, ALS, or KP significantly reduced disease severity on the foliage of inoculated field-grown tomato and pepper plants; although less disease appeared on the fruit of these plants, the effect was not always statistically significant except for the acibenzolar-S-methyl treatment. Acibenzolar-S-methyl increased the yield of marketable tomato fruit in 2 of 3 years of the study and that of pepper fruit in 1 of 2 years. There was a marked increase in the yield of marketable fruit on all ALS-treated pepper plants in 2001. None of the treatments significantly increased total tomato or pepper yield. ALS and KP had no observable phytotoxic effect on tomato or pepper foliage. Our results indicate that future integrated disease management programs for bacterial spot may be enhanced by including foliar sprays of these two products.

Copper tolerance in Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni in South Carolina peach orchards

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brodie Cox ◽  
Hehe Wang ◽  
Guido Schnabel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Copper Tolerance ◽  
Bacterial Spot ◽  
Organic Farm ◽  
Xanthomonas Arboricola ◽  
Tolerance To Copper

Bacterial spot of peach, caused by Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni (Xap), causes yield loss every year in southeastern United States peach orchards. Management is mainly driven by season-long applications of copper-based products, site location, and choice of cultivar. Although tolerance to copper has not been reported in Xap in the United States, adaptation of populations due to frequent use is a concern. We collected Xap from shoot cankers, leaves, and fruit of cv. O'Henry over two years from three conventional farms and one organic farm in South Carolina, one orchard per farm. The four farms had been using copper extensively for years to control bacterial spot. Xap was isolated from four canker types (bud canker, tip canker, non-concentric canker, and concentric canker) in early spring (‘bud break’), as well as from leaf and fruit tissues later in the season at phenological stages ‘pit hardening’ and ‘final swell’. Xap was most frequently isolated from cankers of the organic farm (24% of the cankers) and most isolates (45%) came from bud cankers. Xap isolates were assessed for sensitivity to copper using minimal glucose yeast agar and nutrient agar amended with 38 µg/ml or 51 µg/ml of Cu2+. Two phenotypes of copper-tolerance in Xap were discovered: low copper tolerance (LCT: growth up to 38 µg/ml Cu2+) and high copper tolerance (HCT: growth up to 51 µg/ml Cu2+). A total of 26 (23 LCT and 3 HCT) out of 165 isolates in 2018 and 32 (20 LCT and 12 HCT) out of 133 isolates in 2019 were tolerant to copper. Peach leaves on potted trees were sprayed with copper rates typically applied at ‘delayed dormancy’ (high rate; 2,397 µg/ml Cu2+), at ‘shuck split’ (medium rate; 599 µg/ml Cu2+), and during ‘summer cover sprays’ (low rate; 120 µg/ml Cu2+) and subsequently inoculated with sensitive, LCT and HCT strains. Results indicated that the low and medium rates of copper reduced bacterial spot incidence caused by the sensitive strain but not by the LCT and HCT strains. This study confirms existence of Xap tolerance to copper in commercial peach orchards in the southeastern United States and suggests its contribution to bacterial spot development under current management practices.

scholarly journals Nutritional Similarity between Leaf-Associated Nonpathogenic Bacteria and the Pathogen Is Not Predictive of Efficacy in Biological Control of Bacterial Spot of Tomato

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 3484-3491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexei C. Dianese ◽  
Pingsheng Ji ◽  
Mark Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Population Size ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Pseudomonas Syringae ◽  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
Leaf Surface ◽  
Nitrogen Sources ◽  
Niche Overlap ◽  
Bacterial Spot ◽  
Pathogen Population

ABSTRACT It has been demonstrated that for a nonpathogenic, leaf-associated bacterium, effectiveness in the control of bacterial speck of tomato is correlated with the similarity in the nutritional needs of the nonpathogenic bacterium and the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. This relationship was investigated further in this study by using the pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria, the causal agent of bacterial spot of tomato, and a collection of nonpathogenic bacteria isolated from tomato foliage. The effects of inoculation of tomato plants with one of 34 nonpathogenic bacteria prior to inoculation with the pathogen X. campestris pv. vesicatoria were quantified by determining (i) the reduction in disease severity (number of lesions per square centimeter) in greenhouse assays and (ii) the reduction in leaf surface pathogen population size (log10 of the number of CFU per leaflet) in growth chamber assays. Nutritional similarity between the nonpathogenic bacteria and X. campestris pv. vesicatoria was quantified by using either niche overlap indices (NOI) or relatedness in cluster analyses based upon in vitro utilization of carbon or nitrogen sources reported to be present in tomato tissues or in Biolog GN plates. In contrast to studies with P. syringae pv. tomato, nutritional similarity between the nonpathogenic bacteria and the pathogen X. campestris pv. vesicatoria was not correlated with reductions in disease severity. Nutritional similarity was also not correlated with reductions in pathogen population size. Further, the percentage of reduction in leaf surface pathogen population size was not correlated with the percentage of reduction in disease severity, suggesting that the epiphytic population size of X. campestris pv. vesicatoria is not related to disease severity and that X. campestris pv. vesicatoria exhibits behavior in the phyllosphere prior to lesion formation that is different from that of P. syringae pv. tomato.

scholarly journals Tomato Bacterial Spot Resistance Derived from PI 114490; Inheritance of Resistance to Race T2 and Relationship across Three Pathogen Races

2003 ◽  
Vol 128 (5) ◽  
pp. 698-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.W. Scott ◽  
D.M. Francis ◽  
S.A. Miller ◽  
G.C. Somodi ◽  
J.B. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Disease Severity ◽  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bacterial Spot ◽  
Resistance Level ◽  
Narrow Sense Heritability ◽  
Backcross Population ◽  
Locus Model ◽  
Bacterial Spot Resistance ◽  
Inbred Backcross

Crosses were made between tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) inbreds susceptible to races T2 and T3 of bacterial spot (Xanthomonas vesicatoria and Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria, respectively) and accession PI 114490 with resistance to races T1, T2, and T3. Resistance to race T2 was analyzed using the parents, F1, and F2 generations from one of the crosses. The F1 was intermediate between the parents for disease severity suggesting additive gene action. The segregation of F2 progeny fit a two-locus model (χ2 = 0.96, P = 0.9-0.5) where four resistance alleles are required for a high resistance level, two or three resistance alleles provide intermediate resistance, and zero or one resistance allele results in susceptibility. The narrow sense heritability of resistance to T2 strains was estimated to be 0.37 ± 0.1 based on F2 to F3 parent-offspring regression. A second cross was developed into an inbred backcross (IBC) population to facilitate multilocation replicated testing with multiple races. Segregation for T2 resistance in the inbred backcross population also suggested control was by two loci, lending support to the two-locus model hypothesized based on the F2 segregation. To determine if the same loci conferred resistance to the other races, selections for race T2 resistance were made in the F2 and F3 generations and for race T3 resistance in the F2 through F4 generations. Six T3 selections (F5), 13 T2 selections (F4's that diverged from seven F2 selections), and control lines were then evaluated for disease severity to races T1, T2, and T3 over two seasons. Linear correlations were used to estimate the efficiency of selecting for resistance to multiple races based on a disease nursery inoculated with a single race. Race T1 and race T2 disease severities were correlated (r ≥ 0.80, P< 0.001) within and between years while neither was correlated to race T3 either year. These results suggest that selecting for race T2 resistance in progeny derived from crosses to PI 114490 would be an effective strategy to obtain resistance to both race T1 and T2 in the populations tested. In contrast, selection for race T3 or T2 will be less likely to result in lines with resistance to the other race. PI 114490 had less resistance to T3 than to T2 or T1. Independent segregation of T2 and T3 resistance from the IBC population derived from PI 114490 suggests that T3 resistance is not controlled by the same genes as T2 resistance, supporting the linear correlation data.

scholarly journals Economic Analysis of Grafted Tomato Production in Sandy Soils in Northern Florida

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desire Djidonou ◽  
Zhifeng Gao ◽  
Xin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Tomato Fruit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Fresh Market ◽  
Tomato Production ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Grafted Transplants

In addition to controlling soilborne diseases, grafting with selected rootstocks has the potential to enhance growth and yields in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production. However, information is rather limited regarding its economic viability in different production systems in the United States. The objective of this study was to compare the costs and returns of grafted vs. nongrafted fresh-market tomato production under common management practices in fumigated fields in northern Florida. The field trials were conducted in Live Oak, FL, during Spring 2010 and 2011. ‘Florida 47’ tomato was grafted onto two interspecific hybrid tomato rootstocks: ‘Beaufort’ and ‘Multifort’. Grafted and nongrafted ‘Florida 47’ plants were grown on fumigated raised beds with polyethylene mulch and drip irrigation using recommended commercial production practices for nutrient and pest management. The estimated costs of grafted and nongrafted transplants were $0.67 and $0.15 per plant, respectively, resulting in an additional cost of $3020.16 per acre for using grafted transplants as compared with nongrafted plants. Grafting also led to higher costs of harvesting and marketing tomato fruit as a result of yield improvement (1890 to 2166 25-lb cartons per acre for grafted plant vs. 1457 to 1526 25-lb cartons per acre for nongrafted plant). Partial budget analyses showed that using grafted transplants increased tomato production costs by $4488.03–$5189.76 per acre depending on the rootstock and growing season. However, compared with nongrafted tomato, the net farm return of grafted tomato production was increased by $253.32–$2458.24 per acre based on the tomato shipping point prices. Sensitivity analysis further demonstrated that grafting would be more profitable as the costs of grafted transplants decreased and the market tomato prices increased. These results indicated that although grafting increased the total cost of production, the increase in marketable fruit yield generated significant gross returns to offset costs associated with the use of grafted tomato transplants. Nevertheless, further research is warranted to provide more production budget and net return data about the economic feasibility of grafted tomato production based on a wide range of commercial growing conditions in Florida.

scholarly journals Yield of Bell Peppers as Impacted by the Combination of Bacterial Spot and a Single Hail Storm: Will Copper Sprays Help?

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Kousik ◽  
D.C. Sanders ◽  
D.F. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Bacterial Spot ◽  
Hail Damage ◽  
Previous Season ◽  
Fold Reduction ◽  
Bell Peppers ◽  
Bacterial Spot Disease ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pepper Plants

The impact of a single hail storm injury in combination with bacterial spot caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria was assessed on three commercial pepper (Capsicum annuum) cultivars—King Arthur, Jupiter, and Rebell. In addition, the effectiveness of copper plus maneb sprays on hail-damaged plants to suppress bacterial spot was evaluated. A hail storm of ≈5-min duration severely damaged and defoliated the pepper plants. Severe bacterial spot was observed 10 days later on all plants. Disease ratings taken 2 weeks after the hail storm were significantly greater than ratings before the storm. Unsprayed plots of all three cultivars had the greatest disease and the least yield. Plots sprayed weekly (7-day schedule) had a significantly greater yield and less disease compared to unsprayed and biweekly sprayed (14-day schedule) plots for all three cultivars. The combination of hail damage and bacterial spot resulted in a 6-fold reduction in yield in the absence of copper plus maneb sprays and a 2-fold reduction with weekly sprays when compared to the previous season with no hail injury, but similar levels of bacterial spot disease. Disease ratings were less and yields were greater for `King Arthur', than for `Jupiter' and `Rebell'. A judicious copper plus maneb spray program can suppress bacterial spot and help recovery of a young pepper crop when hail damage occurs.

scholarly journals Inheritance of Resistance in Tomato to Race T3 of the Bacterial Spot Pathogen

2001 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.W. Scott ◽  
J.B. Jones ◽  
G.C. Somodi
Keyword(s):  
Disease Severity ◽  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Dominant Gene ◽  
Field Resistance ◽  
Hypersensitivity Reactions ◽  
Bacterial Spot ◽  
Dominance Model ◽  
Epistatic Interactions ◽  
Susceptible Tomato

Hawaii 7981 tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.), resistant to race T3 of the bacterial spot pathogen [Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria (Doidge) Dye], was crossed to the susceptible tomato inbred, Fla. 7060, and subsequently F2 and backcross seed were obtained. These generations were planted in the field, inoculated with the race T3 pathogen and evaluated for disease severity over two summer seasons. Data were tested for goodness-of-fit to a model based on control by the incompletely dominant gene Xv3 that confers hypersensitivity. The F1 was intermediate in disease severity to the parents for both seasons. When data were combined over both seasons, the backcrosses fit the expected 1:1 ratios although each deviated from the expected ratio in one of the 2 years tested. The F2 did not fit the expected 1:2:1 ratio in either year or when data from the two years were combined due to a deficiency of resistant plants. Thirty-three F2 plants representing an array of disease severities and hypersensitivity reactions were selected in the second season and their F3 progeny were inoculated and evaluated for disease severity. Hawaii 7981 was significantly more resistant than the 12 most resistant F3 selections even though all expressed hypersensitivity. A hypersensitive F3 with intermediate field resistance was crossed to Hawaii 7981 and subsequently, F2 and backcross generations were obtained. These generations were field inoculated with the race T3 pathogen and evaluated for disease severity. Hawaii 7981 was significantly more resistant than the F3 parent as in the previous year. The data did not fit an additive-dominance model and epistatic interactions were significant. Thus, it appears that field resistance to race T3 of bacterial spot found in Hawaii 7981 is conferred quantitatively by Xv3 and other resistance genes. Breeding implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Effects of Herbicides on Fusarium solani f. sp. glycines and Development of Sudden Death Syndrome in Glyphosate-Tolerant Soybean

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sanogo ◽  
X. B. Yang ◽  
H. Scherm
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Fusarium Solani ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Death Syndrome ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
Isolation Frequency ◽  
Cultivar Selection

Sudden death syndrome of soybean, caused by Fusarium solani f. sp. glycines, is a disease of increasing economic importance in the United States. Although the ecology of sudden death syndrome has been extensively studied in relation to crop management practices such as tillage, irrigation, and cultivar selection, there is no information on the effects of herbicides on this disease. Three herbicides (lactofen, glyphosate, and imazethapyr) commonly used in soybean were evaluated for their effects on the phenology of F. solani f. sp. glycines and the development of sudden death syndrome in four soybean cultivars varying in resistance to the disease and in tolerance to glyphosate. Conidial germination, mycelial growth, and sporulation in vitro were reduced by glyphosate and lactofen. In growth-chamber and greenhouse experiments, there was a significant increase in disease severity and frequency of isolation of F. solani f. sp. glycines from roots of all cultivars after application of imazethapyr or glyphosate compared with the control treatment (no herbicide applied). Conversely, disease severity and isolation frequency of F. solani f. sp. glycines decreased after application of lactofen. Across all herbicide treatments, severity of sudden death syndrome and isolation frequency were lower in disease-resistant than in susceptible cultivars. Results suggest that glyphosate-tolerant and -nontolerant cultivars respond similarly to infection by F. solani f. sp. glycines after herbicide application.

Strategies to improve implementation of adaptive management practices for restoration in coastal Louisiana

Shore & Beach ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Tim Carruthers ◽  
Richard Raynie ◽  
Alyssa Dausman ◽  
Syed Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Coastal Restoration ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Coastal Louisiana ◽  
Restoration Effort

Natural resources of coastal Louisiana support the economies of Louisiana and the whole of the United States. However, future conditions of coastal Louisiana are highly uncertain due to the dynamic processes of the Mississippi River delta, unpredictable storm events, subsidence, sea level rise, increasing temperatures, and extensive historic management actions that have altered natural coastal processes. To address these concerns, a centralized state agency was formed to coordinate coastal protection and restoration effort, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). This promoted knowledge centralization and supported informal adaptive management for restoration efforts, at that time mostly funded through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA). Since the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in 2010 and the subsequent settlement, the majority of restoration funding for the next 15 years will come through one of the DWH mechanisms; Natural Resource and Damage Assessment (NRDA), the RESTORE Council, or National Fish and Wildlife Foundation –Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (NFWF-GEBF). This has greatly increased restoration effort and increased governance complexity associated with project funding, implementation, and reporting. As a result, there is enhanced impetus to formalize and unify adaptive management processes for coastal restoration in Louisiana. Through synthesis of input from local coastal managers, historical and current processes for project and programmatic implementation and adaptive management were summarized. Key gaps and needs to specifically increase implementation of adaptive management within the Louisiana coastal restoration community were identified and developed into eight tangible and specific recommendations. These were to streamline governance through increased coordination amongst implementing entities, develop a discoverable and practical lessons learned and decision database, coordinate ecosystem reporting, identify commonality of restoration goals, develop a common cross-agency adaptive management handbook for all personnel, improve communication (both in-reach and outreach), have a common repository and clearing house for numerical models used for restoration planning and assessment, and expand approaches for two-way stakeholder engagement throughout the restoration process. A common vision and maximizing synergies between entities can improve adaptive management implementation to maximize ecosystem and community benefits of restoration effort in coastal Louisiana. This work adds to current knowledge by providing specific strategies and recommendations, based upon extensive engagement with restoration practitioners from multiple state and federal agencies. Addressing these practitioner-identified gaps and needs will improve engagement in adaptive management in coastal Louisiana, a large geographic area with high restoration implementation within a complex governance framework.

THE NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT OF COST MANAGEMENT AMONG EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY U.S. TEXITLE MANUFACTURERS

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Cost Management ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Textile Mills

Several authors have suggested that a particular managerial component was needed before cost accounting could be fully used for accountability and disciplinary purposes. They argue that the marriage of managerialism and accounting first occurred in the United States at the Springfield Armory after 1840. They generally downplay the quality and usefulness of cost accounting at the New England textile mills before that time and call for a re-examination of original mill records from a disciplinary perspective. This paper reports the results of such a re-examination. It initially describes the social and economic environment of U.S. textile manufacturing in New England in the early nineteenth century. Selected cost memos and reports are described and analyzed to indicate the nature and scope of costing undertaken at the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The paper discusses how particular cost information was used and speculates why certain more modern procedures were not adopted. Its major finding is that cost management practices fully measured up to the business complexities, economic pressures, and social forces of the day.

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