Apple and pear scab are foliar pathogens of apple trees. Unmanaged, yield aesthetic losses can be severe. The risk resistance associated with over-reliance on fungicides means novel pathogen management methods products increasingly required. Chitin chitosan widely recognised as induced (IR) agents that trigger plant defence responses in turn enhance resilience to ingress. A container field tria...

This study provides cultivar-specific metabolic fingerprints of volatile organic compounds in the headspace cloudy apple juices. Cloudy juices from 47 “true to type” cultivars grown under identical agricultural and climatic conditions South Tyrol, Italy, have been analysed through solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography coupled with high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HS–SP...

The management of common apple diseases relies heavily on effective fungicide applications. However, the evolution of fungicide resistance by many pathogens has resulted in management failures and significant economic losses. With time and the increasing development of fungicide resistance in apple scab, and possibly bitter rot, more and more apple growers rely on Captan, an older fungicide, be...

Despite intensive research, efforts to control Fusarium fungal infections and prevent or eliminate the presence of its mycotoxins in foods have not met with a great deal of success. Fusaria cause diseases, such as ear rot in corn and head blight and scab in wheat, that affect growth and yield of crops and were estimated to cause a loss of a billion dollars to wheat farmers in the USA in 1993. I...

Abstract Adequate integrated management of potato leaf diseases can have an influence on pathogens which are challenging to control and cause main tuber diseases. Deriving from this hypothesis, experiment was designed evaluate the efficacy foliar application twelve fungicides late blight in tubers, common scab, black scurf silver scurf. In period 2013 2017, were equally applied six times regist...