The experiment on “Performance of dahlia (Dahlia variabilis L.) genotypes for floral and yield attributes” was carried out at the Department Floriculture Landscape Architecture, College Horticulture, Sirsi, University Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka with a view to find best characters. Among 35 HUBD-26 recorded minimum days flowering (31.40 days), maximum flower per plant (559.03 g)...

The evolutionary history of Phytophthora cryptogea and P. drechsleri isolates previously collected from floriculture crops in North Carolina commercial greenhouses was explored with coalescent- and parsimony-based analyses. Initially, 68 isolates representing 13 location-host groups were sequenced at multiple loci. Sequences of all isolates within a group were identical. A subset of isolates we...

Effectiveness of a hot water drench for the control of Aphelenchoides fragariae infesting hosta (Hosta sp.) and ferns (Matteuccia pensylvanica) was studied. Drenching with hot water at 70 degrees C and 90 degrees C in October reduced (P < 0.05) A. fragariae in the soil but not in the leaves relative to the control (25 degrees C) 300 days after treatment (DAT). Plants drenched with 90 degrees C ...