Trianum-P improves open field pepper production in Portugal

mechanization, it is very important that all plants reach the end of their cycle with a high level of plant health and vigour so that the harvesting machine [...] Trianum-P, a biological solution with which we have confirmed an increase in plant resistance to soil fungi, achieving greater vigour and, consequently, obtaining

Disease control

Plant Pollinator interactions in high temperatures

protection, the plant aborts the fruit to reduce fruit load on the plant and directs the assimilates to the vegetative growth of the plant. This is undesirable [...] The plant looks fine, strong, and healthy. However, the conditions in the greenhouse give the plant the impulse to transpire excessively. The plant goes [...] 1 Plant - pollinator interactions in high temperatures This paper focuses on the impact of climate (temperature, radiation, humidity) on plants, pollination

Pepino mosaic virus

carts, scissors and knives. If plant sap of an infected plant is transferred to a non-infected plant, the non-infected plant is also at risk of becoming diseased [...] words, all means by which plant sap of an infected plant gets in contact with a non-infected plant. As soon as one single plant in the greenhouse has been [...] infected crops. If one plant in a greenhouse contracts PepMV, the rest of the plants are sure to follow. PepMV can survive in plant debris and on contaminated

Grey mould

of the plants. In cucumber and tomato the fungus causes lesions on pruning wounds. These lesions may encircle the stem, so the part of the plant above the [...] cinerea ) affects the fruit. In potted plants, the cuttings die due to carry-over infection from infected parent plants. Life cycle and appearance of Grey [...] happens at very high relative humidity (RH > 93%) on dry plants. The germ tube grows into the plant. Grey mould ( Botryotinia fuckeliana / Botrytis cinerea

Black leg of seedlings

in flower bulbs. At first, the plants recover during the night, but later the plants wilt irreversibly. In potted plants the flower buds fall off. The side [...] inadequate drainage or improve the drainage before planting/sowing Prevent plant diseases by optimizing plant potential and crop resilience. [...] particular those of seedlings. Infected plants lag in growth. Seedlings fall over (‘damping-off’). In slightly older plants, the leaves lose their turgor or the

Fusarium spp.

system of the host plant and spreads upwards inside the plants. The other species are dispersed upwards on the outside of the plant. Most Fusarium species [...] the leaves turn yellow and wilt, mostly on one side of the plant. Finally, the whole plant wilts. Other symptoms are brown discolouration of the xylem [...] Fusarium species. Higher up in the plant, the microconidia germinate and infect the surrounding tissue. On infected plant parts, the typical boat-shaped pink

Bacterial wilt, brown rot

invades the plants through wounds or stomata and then spreads into the xylem vessels. In potato, it is tuber-borne. Spread from plant to plant results from [...] potential host plants. Damage symptoms In potato, field symptoms of Ralstonia solanacearum are wilting and yellowing of leaves and stunted plants. Inside, vascular [...] cut. When the bacteria transfers to young plants through infected tubers, the wilting and collapse of plants happens rapidly. Leaves remain green after

Fusarium wilt

system of the host plant and spreads upwards inside the plants. The other species are dispersed upwards on the outside of the plant. Most Fusarium species [...] the leaves turn yellow and wilt, mostly on one side of the plant. Finally, the whole plant wilts. Other symptoms are brown discolouration of the xylem [...] wound healing after harvest, depending on the crop Prevent plant diseases by optimizing plant potential and crop resilience.

Rhizoctonia solani

movement of plant parts. The fungus grows from plant to plant and from the soil upward, therefore the lowest plant parts are infected first. Plants that are [...] balanced and adequate Avoid planting/seeding very early in the season when growth will be slow Prevent plant diseases by optimizing plant potential and crop resilience [...] moderately wet soil. On the infected plant parts, mycelium and new sclerotia are visible. They fall off the plant onto the soil and thus increase the pathogen