Rhizoctonia Onion Stunt
Rhizoctonia Onion Stunt
Rhizoctonia Onion Stunt
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<strong>Onion</strong> nurse crops<br />
• Associated with cereal nurse crops<br />
that protect onion seedlings from<br />
sandblast<br />
• Cereal nurse-crops used because:<br />
- rapid germination in cool soils<br />
- easily killed with herbicide<br />
- availability and cost<br />
• Barley/wheat/triticale<br />
• Alternative: above and non-host R.<br />
solani????<br />
• Timing of sowing influences stunt<br />
severity