January
1997
, Volume
87
, Number
1
Pages
26
-
32
Authors
Nathalie
Colbach
,
Philippe
Lucas
,
and
Jean-Marc
Meynard
Affiliations
First author: URI-GC, INRA, BP 29, 35650 Le Rheu, France; second author: Station de Pathologie Végétale, INRA, BP 29, 35650 Le Rheu, France; and third author: Laboratoire d' Agronomie, INRA-INAPG, Centre de Grignon, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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Accepted for publication 18 September 1996.
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Wheat was assessed at four crop growth stages for take-all (Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici) in a series of field trials that studied the effects of five wheat management practices: sowing date, plant density, nitrogen fertilizer dose and form, and removal/burial of cereal straw. An equation expressing disease level as a function of degree days was fitted to the observed disease levels. This equation was based on take-all epidemiology and depended on two parameters reflecting the importance of the primary and secondary infection cycles, respectively. Early sowing always increased disease frequency via primary infection cycle; its influence on the secondary cycle was variable. Primary infection and earliness of disease onset were increased by high density; however, at mid-season take-all was positively correlated to the root number per plant, which was itself negatively correlated to plant density. At late stages of development, neither plant density nor root number per plant had any influence on disease. A high nitrogen dose increased both take-all on seminal roots and severity of primary infection cycle but decreased take-all on nodal roots and secondary infection cycle. Ammonium (versus ammonium nitrate) fertilizer always decreased disease levels and infection cycles, whereas straw treatment (burial versus removal of straw from the previous cereal crop) had no influence.
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disease progress model.
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