The nematicidal activity of the fungicide ethazole was studied under greenhouse conditions in which a nematode-infested, Norfolk sandy loam was planted to cotton (var. = 'Rowden'). At planting time, the fungicide was incorporated in the soil at rates of 0-100 mg/kg soil. When assayed 4 weeks after planting, plant-parasitic nematodes in soil and roots occurred in decreasing numbers with increasi...

Defining appropriate policies for controlling the spread of fungal disease in agricultural landscapes requires appropriate theoretical models. Most existing models for the fungicidal control of plant diseases do not explicitly include the dynamics of the fungicide itself, nor do they consider the impact of infection occurring during the host growth phase. We introduce a modelling framework for ...

Jerusalem artichoke, a native plant to North America has recently been recognized as a promising biomass for bioeconomy development, with a number of advantages over conventional crops such as low input cultivation, high crop yield, wide adaptation to climatic and soil conditions and strong resistance to pests and plant diseases. A variety of bioproducts can be derived from Jerusalem artichoke,...

Host resistance and synthetic antimicrobials such as fungicides are two of the main approaches used to control plant diseases in conventional agriculture. Although pathogens often evolve to overcome host resistance and antimicrobials, the majority of reports have involved qualitative host - pathogen interactions or antimicrobials targeting a single pathogen protein or metabolic pathway. Studies...

Leaf spot of safflower caused by Alternaria carthami Chowdhury is common in all the safflower growing regions of the world. The disease was reported from India by Chowdhury (1944) and subsequently from erstwhile USSR (Nelen and Vasileva, 1960), United States (United States Department of Agriculture, 1961), Ethiopia and Kenya (Ellis and Holliday, 1970), Africa (Weiss, 1971), Australia (Irwin, 19...

Industrial IT, from ABB, is a framework-based solution for integrating and operating many, possibly independent, industrial applications. Industrial IT provides a software architecture (embodied in a platform), along with supported tools, that allow integration both at the hardware and software level. In order to be able to still control and manage an industrial plant, it is essential to model ...

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (S.R., Z.L., B.K.H., S.A., M.K.M.); Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, New South Wales 2570, Australia (A.R.); Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University, 4–698–1 Asahigaoka, Kashiwara, Osaka 582, Japan (Y.M.); and Kansai...

The Plant The Altbach/Deizisau CHP plant ensures reliable, economical and environmentally-friendly power supply. EnBW operates several plants at the site with a total output of around 1,200 MW, including the 476 MW coal-fired block HKW 1. The district heating generated supplies a considerable proportion of the industrial enterprises in Esslingen and Stuttgart, as well as private households in t...

1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 2 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 3 Department of Plant Pathology and The Stakman-Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant Health, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesot...