Research, SafeCrop Projects

CUCUPOWDER:

Researcher:
Italy: Alessandro Ferrari, Dario Angeli, Loris Maines;
Israel: Mohammed Kiyar, Opher Mendelsohn

Partner(s) and place of activities: Italy and Israel

Scientific responsible of the project: Yigal Elad, Ilaria Pertot

SUMMARY or LIST of activities planned in 2006:
Identification of new potential control agents of zucchini and cucumber powdery mildew and development of combine strategies to reduce the use of pesticides

• Test new BCAs against cucumber Powdery Mildew (PM)
• Test new BCAs against zucchini PM
• Test organic agriculture acceptable products* against cucumber PM
• Test organic agriculture acceptable products against zucchini PM
• Combined application (alternation) with other control agents (alternation with sulfur and 2 other leading friendly agents compared with stand alone treatments
• Italy: first field experiment with 2-3 combined strategies

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