Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and NurseriesUniversity of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2001 - Technology & Engineering - 422 pages Learn how to recognize and prevent damage to bulbs, cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants, and ornamental trees and shrubs the IPM way! You’ll learn how to establish an IPM program for your nursery, techniques for managing pests in flower and nursery crops, how good cultural practices can nip problems in the bud, disease control techniques for root and crown decays, vascular wilt diseases, and pathogens infecting flowers and foliage, how to identify and manage aphids, leafminers, thrips, whiteflies, mites, nematodes and weeds. Handy crop tables give you a symptom-based guide for accurately diagnosing problems and the recommended controls for problems affecting 120 major flower and foliage species. Loaded with outstanding color photos and diagrams, references, suppliers, and a comprehensive index -- this an indispensable guide for anyone in the green industry. |
Contents
Cultural Controls | 145 |
Biological Controls | 146 |
Important Natural Enemies | 151 |
Pesticides | 155 |
Types of Insecticides | 157 |
Thrips | 161 |
Leafminers | 167 |
Whiteflies | 170 |
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Pesticides | 35 |
Abiotic Disorders and Cultural Practices | 41 |
Irrigation Methods | 45 |
Water Quality | 47 |
Recirculated and Reclaimed Water | 48 |
pH | 50 |
Growing Media | 52 |
Containers | 54 |
Nutrient Disorders | 56 |
Pesticides and Phytotoxicity | 60 |
Light | 62 |
Container Spacing | 63 |
Ventilation | 64 |
Physical and Mechanical Injury | 66 |
Ethylene | 67 |
Air Pollution | 68 |
Diseases | 69 |
Types of Pathogens | 70 |
Monitoring | 71 |
Diagnosing Disease | 72 |
Management | 73 |
Growing Media Treatments | 74 |
Disinfectants | 80 |
Cultural Practices | 85 |
Weed and Insect Control | 89 |
Biological Control | 90 |
Suppressive Soils | 91 |
ROOT CROWN AND STEM DISEASES | 93 |
Root and Crown Decays | 95 |
Pythium Root Rots | 96 |
Phytophthora Root and Crown Rots | 97 |
Thielaviopsis Root Rot | 98 |
Armillaria Root Rot | 99 |
Dematophora Root Rot | 100 |
Cottony Rot | 101 |
Botryosphaeria Canker and Dieback | 102 |
VASCULAR WILT DISEASES | 104 |
Verticillium Wilt | 105 |
Bacterial Wilts | 107 |
FOLIAR AND FLOWER DISEASES | 108 |
Powdery Mildews | 112 |
Downy Mildews | 115 |
Sooty Molds | 116 |
Alternaria | 117 |
Septoria | 118 |
Rusts | 119 |
Chrysanthemum White Rust | 120 |
Fasciation | 121 |
Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus | 126 |
Phytoplasmas | 129 |
Aster Yellows | 130 |
Insects Mites and Other Invertebrates | 131 |
Damage | 132 |
Diagnosing Problems | 134 |
Thresholds | 141 |
Exclusion | 142 |
Aphids | 179 |
Mealybugs | 183 |
Scales | 186 |
Ants | 191 |
Leafhoppers and Sharpshooters | 193 |
True Bugs | 194 |
Fungus Gnats Moth Flies and Shore Flies | 196 |
Bulb Flies | 200 |
Gall Makers | 202 |
Caterpillars | 203 |
Weevils | 208 |
White Grubs | 211 |
Cucumber Beetles Flea Beetles and Leaf Beetles | 212 |
Mites | 213 |
Snails and Slugs | 219 |
Garden Symphylan | 223 |
Centipedes and Millipedes | 224 |
Pillbugs and Sowbugs | 225 |
Springtails | 226 |
Weeds | 227 |
Monitoring | 228 |
Management | 232 |
Sanitation and Exclusion | 233 |
Growing Media | 234 |
Repeated Irrigation and Cultivation | 237 |
Repeated Dry Cultivation | 238 |
Herbicides | 239 |
Weed Control Around Crop Plants | 244 |
Irrigation Management | 245 |
Cover Crops | 249 |
HandWeeding | 250 |
Cultivation | 252 |
Weed Control Outside Growing Areas | 253 |
Types of Weeds | 254 |
ANNUAL WEEDS | 255 |
Cudweeds | 256 |
Little Mallow | 257 |
Spotted Spurge | 258 |
Willow Herbs | 259 |
Creeping Fieldcress | 260 |
Creeping Woodsorrel | 261 |
Nutsedges | 262 |
AQUATIC WEEDS | 263 |
Common Duckweed | 264 |
Nematodes | 265 |
Identification and Biology | 267 |
Sampling Nematodes | 269 |
Root Knot Nematodes | 271 |
Crop Tables | 273 |
Resources | 393 |
Publications | 394 |
Suppliers | 396 |
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Common terms and phrases
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