Use of a Plastic Rain Shield Reduces Fruit Decay and Need for Fungicides in Sweet Cherry

It has been shown previously that covering sweet cherry trees (Prunus avium L.) with rain shields made of polyethylene or other waterproof, light-transmitting material prior to harvest to prevent fruit cracking will reduce fruit decay by various fungi. In the present work, the effects of extending t...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - 87(2003), 5 vom: 20. Mai, Seite 523-528
1. Verfasser: Børve, Jorunn (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Stensvand, Arne
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2003
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article Mucor rot bitter rot brown rot gray mold
LEADER 01000naa a22002652 4500
001 NLM294375112
003 DE-627
005 20231225081338.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 231225s2003 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1094/PDIS.2003.87.5.523  |2 doi 
028 5 2 |a pubmed24n0981.xml 
035 |a (DE-627)NLM294375112 
035 |a (NLM)30812952 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rakwb 
041 |a eng 
100 1 |a Børve, Jorunn  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Use of a Plastic Rain Shield Reduces Fruit Decay and Need for Fungicides in Sweet Cherry 
264 1 |c 2003 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a ƒaComputermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a ƒa Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
500 |a Date Revised 20.11.2019 
500 |a published: Print 
500 |a Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE 
520 |a It has been shown previously that covering sweet cherry trees (Prunus avium L.) with rain shields made of polyethylene or other waterproof, light-transmitting material prior to harvest to prevent fruit cracking will reduce fruit decay by various fungi. In the present work, the effects of extending the covering period on fruit decay, fruit quality, and the potential reduction in number of fungicide applications were investigated. In six of eight trials, there were significant reductions in fruit decay in covered fruit compared with fruit that were not covered. The most prevalent fruit-decaying fungi were Monilinia laxa and Botrytis cinerea. Mucor piriformis and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides occurred in high amounts in one trial each. The treatments included covering during rain periods until harvest was over from (i) bloom (bloom-cover), (ii) 6 to 7 weeks prior to harvest (early-fruit-cover), (iii) 3 to 4 weeks prior to harvest (late-fruit-cover), and (iv) not covered. In two trials, the number of fungicide applications was similar between different covering times (bloom-cover not included), and in one trial no fungicides were applied at all (all treatments included). There was a significant effect of covering on fruit decay in all three trials, but there was no difference between covering 6 to 7 and 3 to 4 weeks prior to harvest. In the sprayed fields, the incidence of decay was 48% in fruit that were not covered compared with from 6 to 11% in covered fruit. In the unsprayed field, covering from bloom resulted in 14% fruit decay compared with 23 to 26% in the other two cover treatments. In five trials, all covering regimes were included, and the number of fungicide applications varied with time of covering. The number of fungicide applications for the different treatments were: bloom-cover, 0; early-fruit-cover, 1 to 4; late-fruit-cover, 2 to 5; uncovered, 3 to 6. The mean incidence of fruit decay at harvest for the five trials (range in parentheses) was 3.4 (2.0 to 4.3), 1.8 (0.4 to 4.0), 3.8 (1.8 to 7.7), and 16.5% (2.5 to 39.7), respectively, for the covering times listed. There were no significant differences in decay after storage (3 to 7 days at 4°C followed by 2 to 4 days at 20°C) among the different covering times in the six experiments where fruit were stored. The results indicate that fungicide applications were not needed if fruit were covered during rainy periods from bloom until the end of harvest, and it was possible to omit 1 fungicide application if the covering period was increased from 3 to 4 weeks to 6 to 7 weeks. The fruit quality was not reduced by increasing the covering period from the normal 3 to 4 weeks in any of the experiments 
650 4 |a Journal Article 
650 4 |a Mucor rot 
650 4 |a bitter rot 
650 4 |a brown rot 
650 4 |a gray mold 
700 1 |a Stensvand, Arne  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Plant disease  |d 1997  |g 87(2003), 5 vom: 20. Mai, Seite 523-528  |w (DE-627)NLM098181742  |x 0191-2917  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:87  |g year:2003  |g number:5  |g day:20  |g month:05  |g pages:523-528 
856 4 0 |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS.2003.87.5.523  |3 Volltext 
912 |a GBV_USEFLAG_A 
912 |a SYSFLAG_A 
912 |a GBV_NLM 
912 |a GBV_ILN_350 
951 |a AR 
952 |d 87  |j 2003  |e 5  |b 20  |c 05  |h 523-528