• Working at Koppert

  works at our company agrees: At Koppert you are regarded as an individual. Our company has grown into an international business over the past 50 years [...] colleagues. At Koppert we work together. Koppert employees have many opportunities to develop their careers. Koppert is recognized as a training company in many [...] company, Koppert has developed an internal career policy. New vacancies are preferably filled internally. Koppert feels it is important that its staff continue

• Koppert India celebrated 10 years as partners with Indian nature and farmers

  April 3, 2023

  On 17 th March 2023, Koppert India has celebrated its 10 th anniversary together with governmental officials, partners, colleagues and management team [...] India Pvt Ltd., was established on 26th July 2012 in Bengaluru to offer our natural solutions all over India. The journey in India started with offering our [...] natural solutions in horticulture. As India, being a major agricultural economy Koppert soon established its R&D and Production facility in Hyderabad to develop

• Root rot of carrot

  hence is not easy to place it at the generic level. Årsvoll was the first to identify and describe the fungus in Norway, in 1965. An infection can occur [...] through the soil and the air. The fungus develops at temperatures ranging from -3°C to 25°C, with an optimum around 18°C. Lesions are dark brown to black [...] germination in nonsterile soil was proportional to the proximity to carrot rootlets. Conidia on leaflets produced a germ tube, an appressorium and an infection

• Early blight

  during harvest (in potato and carrot). Post-harvest storage at 0-1 o C. A. brassicae and A. brassicicola : adjust the sowing date to avoid conditions conducive [...] temperatures lie between 15 and 28 °C) and at a relative humidity (RH) of over 90% or when the leaves are wet. Small differences in optimum temperature occur [...] occurring as rapidly as two to three days later and sporulation within five days. Infection is both direct and through wounds and stomata. Spores are dispersed

• Black rot of carrots

  ( Alternaria radicina ). Prevent damage during harvest (in potato and carrot). Post-harvest storage at 0-1 o C. A. brassicae and A. brassicicola : adjust [...] radicina ) may occasionally appear on the carrots at harvest but usually occur only during post-harvest storage. Sporulation of Alternaria occurs at temperatures [...] s from 2-4 °C up to 28-30 °C (optimum temperatures lie between 15 and 28 °C) and at a relative humidity (RH) of over 90% or when the leaves are wet. Small

• Fusarium head blight or scab

  Germination only occurs at relative humidity (RH) above 80%. Warm (25-30 °C) and humid (RH above 85%) conditions increase chances of infection. How to prevent Fusarium [...] Primary infection is either seed-borne or takes place as infection of the roots at the root tip or in small wounds, for example where lateral roots branch [...] disease. Ascospores of Gibberella zeae (Fusarium graminearum ) germinate at temperatures between 4 and 35 °C, with an optimum between 25 and 28 °C. Germination

• Swirski-Mite Plus

  preventively or as soon as the first pest mites are detected in the crop. Use at least 4,000 sachets per ha and hang them evenly spaced in the crop. Release [...] swirskii is most effective at temperatures between 20 and 32°C (68 and 90°F). It is not effective at temperatures below 18°C (64°F). A. swirskii is sensitive [...] sheltered locations in the crop, not exposed to direct sunlight Sachets already have an exit hole Hold sachets by the cardboard strip at the top, to avoid damaging

• Verticillium wilt

  m dahliae has an optimum temperature around 25-27 °C. How to prevent Verticillium wilt Start with clean soil or substrate by heating it at a temperature [...] controlling the nematodes, as damaged spots can be used as points of entry Prevent plant diseases by optimizing plant potential and crop resilience. [...] verticillium wilt and early dying of potato. Damage symptoms Verticillium species mostly cause wilting of plants. The wilting starts at the lower leaves

• Apple scab

  Venturia inaequalis is an ascomycete fungus that causes apple scab disease Damage symptoms Venturia inaequalis causes apple scab disease, which at first presents [...] between 6 and 26 °C. At optimum temperatures, between 18 and 24 °C, only 9 hours of leaf wetness is required, at lower temperatures this increases to 12-28 hours [...] population as well as macro-organisms like earth worms are not harmed by for example application of compounds against stem canker, since they help in decomposing

• Dwarf bunt

  controversa is a plant pathogen. It is a fungus known to cause the smut disease TCK smut in soft white and hard red winter wheats, as well as dwarf bunt [...] source of primary infection. The soil-borne teliospores may survive in soil without suitable host for as long as ten years. Seed-borne transmission does [...] (smut spore) they contain, which is larger than a normal kernel. The bunt balls are grey-brown. They rupture at harvest and release black, powdery spores