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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

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