Pest Management Guidelines - Vegetables
Pest Management Guidelines
A Cornell Cooperative Extension Publication

  
Cornell Guide for Pest Management of Vegetables

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Chapter 12 Asparagus

Chapter 23    Potatoes

Contents

23.1 Recommended Varieties. 243

23.2 Planting Methods. 243

23.3 Fertility. 244

23.4 Harvesting. 245

23.5 Disease Management 247

23.5.1 Seed piece decay and seedborne pathogens primarily caused by Fusarium dry rot, Rhizoctonia black scurf, Helminthosporium silver scurf, common scab, and bacterial soft rot pathogens. 247

23.5.2 Bacterial soft rot, Erwinia spp. 248

23.5.3 Fusarium dry rot primarily Fusarium sambucinum and Fusarium solani 249

23.5.4 Early blight, Alternaria solani, A. tomatophila. 249

23.5.5 Late blight, Phytophthora infestans. 252

23.5.6 Verticillium wilt, Verticillium albo-atrum and V. dahliae. 254

23.5.7 Fusarium wilt, Fusarium spp. 255

23.5.8 Black Dot root rot, Colletotrichum coccodes. 255

23.5.9 Canker and Black scurf, Rhizoctonia solani 256

23.5.10 Botrytis vine rot, Botrytis cinerea. 257

23.5.11 White mold, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.. 258