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CONTROL OF APPLE SCAB IN ORGANIC FARMING<br />
Anna La Torre, Lucia Donnarumma, Daniele Lolletti, Giancarlo Imbrogli ni<br />
Istituto Sperimentale per la Patologia Vegetale – Via C. G. Bartero, 22 - Roma<br />
Introduction<br />
Apple scab, which is caused by Venturia inequalis (Cke.) Wint., is considered the mayor <strong>di</strong>sease of apple. In<br />
organic agriculture, formulations of synthetic origin for defence are not admitted and plant protection is<br />
essentially based on the use of mineral products as copper and sulphur. Copper is more effective than sulphur<br />
(sulphur is ineffective at below 10°C, phytotoxic over 28°C and it has greater persistence). Use of copper<br />
involves several problems: it accumulates in soil, causes phytotoxicity phenomena, when employed on full<br />
vegetation, it gives rust phenomena on some varieties of apples. It is necessary to find protection alternatives<br />
strategies, limiting the negative effects of use formulations of this element and assuring, at the same time,<br />
sufficient protection against the <strong>di</strong>seases.<br />
Fig. 1: - Spilocea pomi coni<strong>di</strong>a Fig. 2: - Experimental field<br />
Materials and Methods<br />
The trial has been done in a farm near Latina (Latium, central Italy), which as been converted, in 1993, to the<br />
method of organic farming (cv Royal Gala grafted on M9). Treatments and doses are in<strong>di</strong>cated in table 1. Some<br />
compounds, for their formulation, release low amounts of copper. They are: Cuivrol, commercialized like<br />
fertiliser (18% of copper metal); Cuprobenton, composed by copper oxychloride and copper sulfate hydrate<br />
(15% of copper metal) coformulated with benthic clay (70%); Blue Copper Formula 2, made up with copper<br />
hydroxide (24% in shape of crystals of the <strong>di</strong>mension of 0,35 mµ). As alternative products have been tested<br />
Myco-sin (sulphureous clay, yeasts, equisetum extracts) and calcium polysulphide. The trials have been<br />
conducted as recommended in EPPO/OEPP PP 1/5(3). The esteem of the infectious risk has been assessed on<br />
the Mills criteria, monitoring instrumentally the climatic parameters by a thermoigrograph and a pluviometer.<br />
The assessments to estimate therapeutic efficacy have been carried out on 4 central plants of every parcel<br />
estimating the number of leaves for every treatment and percentage of leaves surface interested by apple scab,<br />
using a scale with 5 classes of attack. Results obtained, after arc sin trasformation, have been evaluated by<br />
Duncan test.<br />
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